It Was Fun While it Lasted: A South Texas Oilman's Memoir

M H Major

Sep 2022 · Major Press LLC

About this ebook

M H Major’s memoir and personal letters offer an insightful account of an ordinary man’s resilience, fear, hope, and mortality as he struggled to succeed as a wildcatter in South Texas during the fifties. One of four brothers ordered by their Depression-era father to become doctors, Millard was the only son to strike out as a geologist in a business he’d been taught to distrust.

 

As World War II raged, finding new production was easy enough. But an oilman must discover new drilling prospects year after year.

 

A long-time consultant geologist for the King Ranch, Major details his challenges to stay in the game long after production in South Texas began to play out and other geologists had left the field.

About the author

M H Major (1919-1996) was a native Texan and an active geologist in Corpus Christi, Texas from the forties through the eighties. In 1992 he wrote It was Fun While it Lasted, a memoir about his childhood during the Depression and his experiences hunting oil in South Texas.

Besides being M. H. Major’s daughter, Margaret Ann Major Cleaves is a USA Today bestselling author, who writes under the name Ann Major. She has written more than 75 romance novels.

Ann lives in Corpus Christi, Texas and is fascinated by the vast ranches, the oil industry, and the vital clash and blend of the Hispanic and Anglo cultures. This locale provides the backdrop for many of her novels.

Ann holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of Texas as well as her M.A. from Texas A&M.

She published for Dell, Silhouette Books, Mira Books, and Harlequin before retiring in 2014 to pursue a career in Indie publishing.

Of all her accomplishments Ann feels proudest that she is a founding board member of Romance Writers of America.