Corduroy Road, The Story of Glenn H. McCarthyGlenn McCarthy was born in the panic year 1907 at a time many said the day of individual opportunity was over. McCarthy proved it was not. Known in the media variously as "Diamond Glenn" and "The King of the Wildcatters, McCarhys charismatic personality and rags to riches story drew much attention from the national media. He was the cultural mythos of the Texas oil millionaire: charming, lucky, and unabashed. He inspired the fictional character Jett