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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Reinventing Texas
    sub title: the legacy of Santa Rita No. 1
  name:
    name part: Weaver, Bobby D. (Bobby Dearl)
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 124 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
  abstract: "This is a charming account of a seminal event in the history of the University of Texas and its impact on both higher education in the Lone Star State and the region in which it occurred, the Permian Basin. Named after Santa Rita--the Saint of the Impossible--the oil well that was the foundation of the University's world class endowment also transformed West Texas as it marked the first great oil field in the Permian Basin. At the beginning of the 1920s, the Permian Basin was one of those largely unknown and ignored places in far West Texas. Then a little oil well was drilled there, producing only about 200 barrels per day, a small, unimpressive accomplishment. But the well had been blessed in the name of Santa Rita, the patron saint of impossible causes. It was called Santa Rita No. 1, and it ignited a spark that grew into an economic conflagration that became the nation's most productive oil producing region and transformed a sparse population of ranchers into an urban, petroleum-oriented culture. It also created one of the largest endowments supporting higher education in the United States. In 2023, one hundred years after Santa Rita No. 1 began producing, its legacy, born in a forgotten corner of the magical land out beyond the hundredth meridian, is alive and well. The fire it ignited burns brightly, not only in the Permian Basin, where a dynamic oilfield culture produces a significant part of the nation's energy, but in its support of higher education at the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, and the many schools associated with each through their respective systems"--
  note: Bobby D. Weaver.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
    geographic code: n-us-nm
  subject:
    name:
      name part: University of Texas.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Texas A & M University.
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum industry and trade
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    geographic: Permian Basin (Tex. and N.M.)
  subject:
    topic: Pétrole
    topic: Industrie et commerce
    geographic: Texas
  classification: HD9567.T3 W39 2025
  classification: 338.2/728209764
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Reinventing Texas
    name:
      name part: Weaver, Bobby D. (Bobby Dearl), 1936-
    origin info:
      publisher: Austin : Texas State Historical Association, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024048958
  identifier: 9781625110794
  identifier: 1625110790
  identifier: 9781625110824
  identifier: 1625110820
  identifier: 9781625110800
  identifier: 2024048957
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241118
    record change date: 20250927141227.5
    record identifier: in00005665240
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng