While a junior in high school in the early 1960s,Harold Hamm was asked to write a paper on a career that sounded interesting to him.He picked the oil business,researching and describing in great detail how it worked-from exploration and extraction to refining and transportation.Until then,the petroleum industry-although it was all around him in Enid,Okla.-wasn't very familiar to him.What was familiar had been farming with his family at his first home south of Oklahoma City,and picking cotton when in season in Texas,getting paid 2 cents a pound.As the season began to wane,the family would return home.Hamm and his siblings-he was the youngest of 13 children-would go back to school,catching up on the missed work as best they could.
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