East Cameron Partners is a wildcatter that acquired some offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico.
However its use was commercialised by a Texas wildcatter called George Mitchell, the sort of risk-taker America has in abundance.
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Robertson's grandfather, the legendary Texas wildcatter Hugh Roy Cullen, had discovered the giant Tom O'Conner Field in south Texas in 1932.
The white-haired wildcatter is trying one last time to etch his legacy in the deep waters off the coast of West Africa.
Using other people's money has been a hallmark of Davis' empire, going back to his days as a wildcatter succeeding to his father's oil business.
The chief executive of Chesapeake Energy and the greatest wildcatter of his generation, Aubrey McClendon, will resign from the company he founded on April 1.
Among Texan artists the big change, in Mr Auping's view, is that they have dropped the wildcatter mentality of a generation ago and abandoned any last trace of regional folksiness.
Nobody represents a greater threat to the NFL old guard than the Cowboys' Jones, a risk-taking former oil wildcatter who wants to dismantle the revenue-sharing of NFL-branded merchandise, now controlled by NFL Properties.
Back in 2008 he turned down months of interview requests before agreeing to sit down with Forbes for this story ("The Crossing") on his oil and gas business, and this one ("A Wildcatter in Love With Warbirds") on his passion for collecting vintage World War II fighter planes.
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