AUSTIN, Texas — It may be hard to believe that it all began in a tiny place called Gladys City, a few miles from Beaumont in southeast Texas. It was there that a man named Anthony Lucas had a hunch.

This story is featured in the September/October issue of ETX View Magazine. The legacy of the oil industry runs deep in East Texas and continues today. An unforgettable discovery of a large oil field ...

Hawk Dunlap fought fires and blowouts in oil fields around the world over a 30-year career, but nothing prepared him for what he found when he finally came home to Texas. There, on the Permian Basin’s ...