Tag: Tom Pendleton

The Iron Orchard

  This week the movie adaptation of Tom Pendleton’s epic 1966 novel, The Iron Orchard, opens in theaters. His book tells the story of Jim McNeely’s rise from oil roughneck to wildcatter in mid-twentieth century Texas, and is based on the author’s experience in the oil business.   Tom Pendleton was a pseudonym for Edmund…Continue Reading The Iron Orchard