“I really don’t care much about riches, but I do care about achievement. That’s all that matters.”

—J. Howard Marshall II

This isn’t a post about Anna Nicole Smith. This is a post about J. Howard Marshall.

He is, of course, the man who married Smith and willed her his ginormous estate. But what did he do for the first 89 years of his life? As it turns out, a hell of a lot.