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While some 100 landmen amassed as much land as possible, Comstock started tinkering with techniques to drill more than 3 miles below the surface.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

In some situations, when residents negotiated for better-than-average lease terms, landmen made them sign nondisclosure agreements that legally forbade sharing information.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2018

The bad news is I can’t go out and let our landmen loose on the landowners of the world.

From Forbes • Apr. 7, 2013

And when the landmen, as oil-lease buyers are called, contacted Rick Davis’s 88-year-old mother, Ruth, this year, he advised her to follow Joe’s dream and take the money.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2011

"Yes," responded the skipper, "I presume Stanley is drilling some of those landmen."

From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul