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He went on to make a fortune as a wildcatter in the oil industry.

Wildcatters from all over raced to the area after the news of the Bland well.

It was released in 2004 on the independent Wildcatter label.

Despite the excitement and money flowing around the energy business these days, not every site is open to small wildcatters.

The ranchers owned the land, the wildcatters found the oil, and everyone got rich together.

The nation's wildcatters are wary about the recent surge in oil prices.

What strikes one wildcatter as an attractive deal may look like folly to another.

Carl and Jack are both the sons of oil-rich wildcatters.

The strategy is more aggressive than that of many competitors - not surprising for a company run by an old Texas wildcatter.

But now, if the barons themselves are to be believed, the era of wildcatter capitalism is over.

Lafayette Wildcatters - Team is dormant for the 2011 season.

Triton Energy began business in 1962 in much the same way as other wildcatter oil companies of its day.

It is primarily used for baseball and was the home of Tyler Wildcatters.

Wildcatters and investors flooded into the city and the town began to take shape.

"I know a wildcatter in West Texas who'd sink a shaft right here."

"We had a lot of wildcatters ready to be amused, titillated and educated," she said.

Wildcatters were lured in from across the country.

Currently he is an assistant coach with the Lafayette Wildcatters.

There was no suitable temporary facility in the area, forcing the Wildcatters to cancel the season.

Her father was an oil wildcatter who moved from town to town searching for a gusher that he never hit.

The shift away from a blue-collar base extends even into the industry's historic core - the wildcatters.

"That's a lot different from the early days of the industry when wildcatters would just drill a well, cross their fingers and hope for the best."

But with more coal leaving the area than Gideon is producing, it appeared that a wildcatter had taken another hill.

In 1956, following his period as a wildcatter, he founded the company that would later become Mesa Petroleum.

The possibility of becoming wealthy from oil created a "wildcatter" culture in many areas of the state.