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The Treasure of Money Hill

George L Potter

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Description:Legend has it that a fortune in gold lies hidden somewhere in the Money Hill area of southeastern Louisiana, left behind by pirates and Confederate bankers—fair game for anyone persistent enough to find it. Oilfield attorney Randall Oliver is well aware of the Money Hill legend...but he also knows that even a ton of gold is small potatoes compared to the fortune in natural gas that might underlie the property. Shortly after joining the Dallas law firm of Bensen & Hotard in October 1976, Randall impresses oil wildcatter Buck Townsend with his prolific knowledge of Louisiana oil law. When founding partner Fred Hotard is murdered in an apparent mugging gone wrong, Buck puts Randall to work on a project Hotard had been handling for him: the sprawling Money Hill Prospect, a 12,000-acre tract centered on the antebellum Bolivar Plantation in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. With the help of the law firm’s paralegal Colleen Rawlings, Randall begins the years-long process of putting together the "play." In her spare time, Colleen starts pursuing the Money Hill treasure itself; first idly, then with increasing earnestness. The key to both the Money Hill gas deposits and the treasure seems to lie with the Devereauxs, a tight-knit local "Redbone" clan descended from Bolivar's original owner, Alan Devereaux, and his freed slaves. The modern Devereauxs own nearly all the parcels making up the Money Hill Prospect, with the exception of the old plantation. That 2,000-acre tract is tightly controlled by Bolivar Land and Timber Ltd., an obscure corporation established shortly before the Civil War. Bolivar's attorney, Zach Bettencourt, blocks their efforts to lease the old plantation site at every turn—until Buck agrees to contribute substantial sums to the presidential campaign of Senator Robert Chandler, Bettencourt's handpicked candidate for the 1980 election. Even then, Bettencourt makes Buck swear he won't negotiate any leases with the Devereauxs. Chandler's campaign soon crashes and burns, the victim of a scandalous affair involving illegal campaign contributions, Vegas call girls—and Zach Bettencourt. People close to Randall are murdered. Randall suspects that the true motivation for the murders has very little to do with either gold or oil. But the only way to prove it to himself, and to the authorities, is to put his own life on the line...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Treasure of Money Hill. To get started finding The Treasure of Money Hill, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 230

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1477479856

Description: Legend has it that a fortune in gold lies hidden somewhere in the Money Hill area of southeastern Louisiana, left behind by pirates and Confederate bankers—fair game for anyone persistent enough to find it. Oilfield attorney Randall Oliver is well aware of the Money Hill legend...but he also knows that even a ton of gold is small potatoes compared to the fortune in natural gas that might underlie the property. Shortly after joining the Dallas law firm of Bensen & Hotard in October 1976, Randall impresses oil wildcatter Buck Townsend with his prolific knowledge of Louisiana oil law. When founding partner Fred Hotard is murdered in an apparent mugging gone wrong, Buck puts Randall to work on a project Hotard had been handling for him: the sprawling Money Hill Prospect, a 12,000-acre tract centered on the antebellum Bolivar Plantation in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. With the help of the law firm’s paralegal Colleen Rawlings, Randall begins the years-long process of putting together the "play." In her spare time, Colleen starts pursuing the Money Hill treasure itself; first idly, then with increasing earnestness. The key to both the Money Hill gas deposits and the treasure seems to lie with the Devereauxs, a tight-knit local "Redbone" clan descended from Bolivar's original owner, Alan Devereaux, and his freed slaves. The modern Devereauxs own nearly all the parcels making up the Money Hill Prospect, with the exception of the old plantation. That 2,000-acre tract is tightly controlled by Bolivar Land and Timber Ltd., an obscure corporation established shortly before the Civil War. Bolivar's attorney, Zach Bettencourt, blocks their efforts to lease the old plantation site at every turn—until Buck agrees to contribute substantial sums to the presidential campaign of Senator Robert Chandler, Bettencourt's handpicked candidate for the 1980 election. Even then, Bettencourt makes Buck swear he won't negotiate any leases with the Devereauxs. Chandler's campaign soon crashes and burns, the victim of a scandalous affair involving illegal campaign contributions, Vegas call girls—and Zach Bettencourt. People close to Randall are murdered. Randall suspects that the true motivation for the murders has very little to do with either gold or oil. But the only way to prove it to himself, and to the authorities, is to put his own life on the line...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Treasure of Money Hill. To get started finding The Treasure of Money Hill, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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