In 1992, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners (TIPRO) sought to document the history of their organization by placing their records at the Center for American History and funding an oral history project. TIPRO was founded in 1946 to promote and protect the interests and concerns of independent oil and gas producers, particularly small businesses, and royal owners throughout Texas. The records and oral history interviews, conducted by the Center, illustrate TIPRO’s work to help insure sound economic and government practices and to demand political accountability in the oil and gas industry. They commissioned Lawrence Goodwyn who used these resources to write Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association published by the Texas State Historical Association in 1996.
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