Sid Richardson and Texas Oil

No one knows how much money changed hands as the frenzied trading of oil properties in Texas took place in the Roaring Twenties. A startled world was told that six wells in Texas could produce as much oil in one day as all the oil wells in the world. When Sid Richardson was fifteen years old he stood over six feet tall and weighed one hundred and ninety eight pounds, he had broad shoulders, narrow hips and walked with the swagger of a heavy hitter. Sid was boisterous and gruff but had a hea...