John-Mark Echols

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Frania was deep into her pregnancy that summer, he explained it would be necessary for the family to move to Dallas. There Frania unpacked her things in a two-story brick home at 4230 Versailles Avenue, in the city’s nicest residential area, Highland Park. Not long after, she gave birth to their third child, a girl they named Helen Hilda Hunt. Once again Hunt couldn’t make it to the hospital. He was too busy, off on important business in the remote East Texas pines, where he had stumbled on a down-on-his-luck wildcatter named Columbus Joiner, a man with whom he was about to make history.
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
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