El Dorado, KS: Butler County Printing, 1986 Butler County Printing, El Dorado, KS. 1986. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Inscribed by author on the title page. Glued Binding. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded. spine is not creased or split. 187 pp. A skinner was a driver of horses in the oil field and this a series of stories, hardships, adventures, and hard work that might befall any skinner on a day's work. The skinner was the unsung hero of the oil fields, for without him and his team of horses, there would be no oil fields as the team kept the bull wheel, the calf wheel, the band wheel, the fly wheel and the centric wheel moving. This was a good life for about fifteen years in the Butler County oil fields until Pearl Harbor happened. A clean pristine copy.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003299
Title: The Long Line Kansas Skinner
Author: John B. Hogaboom
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Butler County Printing
Place of Publication: El Dorado, KS
Date Published: 1986
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: skinner, oil work. oil fields, Butler County Kansas, horse team, El Dorado Kansas, mule teams, Kansas skinner, oil production in Kansas, oil drilling rigs, oil drilling,
Bookseller catalogs: Kansas Related; Geology;

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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.

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