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...geologist for 32 years and a onetime professor at the Colorado School of Mines Dr. Victor Ziegler long suspected that the land around Worland, Wyo. near the Big Horn Mountain range was loaded with oil. Seven years ago, with his wife Isabella, he set out to prove it. He and his wife drove their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often...
...more they surveyed, the more beautiful it looked. Ziegler borrowed money from friends and relatives, dubbed his enterprise the Bonanza Oil Co., in five years leased some 16,000 acres. Then he started drilling near Worland. Recalls Ziegler: "Many is the time I've seen Isabella go to sleep in the dog house [the steel shack at the base of the rig] with the drill pumping away, her all bundled up in a sleeping bag to keep from freezing. I've seen it so cold that a wrench dropped on the floor of the rig would freeze there...
...wanted to change the initials after his name from V.P. to M.A. He had been dreaming about it ever since he graduated from Yale in 1903. But until last week Ziegler Sargent of New Haven could never spare the time...
...office, and got there promptly at 8 every morning. When his day's work was done he was happiest in his library. He bought and read everything he could about American history, until books overflowed to the attic and the basement. "A man's education," said Ziegler Sargent, "never ends...
Last week, at 69, Ziegler Sargent announced that he was retiring from business, and had finally applied to Yale as a candidate for an M.A. Yale accepted him, bicycle...