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The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown

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Williston, North Dakota used to be a sleepy farm town for generations―until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that The usa hadn’t seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from far and wide the country descended, chasing jobs that promised them six-figure salaries and demanded no prior experience.

But for each and every person chasing the American dream, there’s a darker side―reports of violence and sexual assault skyrocketed, schools overflowed, and housing prices soared. Real estate is this type of hot commodity that tent cities popped up, and plenty of workers’ only option used to be to live out of their cars. Farmers whose families had tended the land for generations watched, powerless, as their fields were bulldozed to make way for one oil rig after another.

Written in the vein Ted Conover and Jon Krakauer, the use of a mixture of first-person adventure and cultural analysis, The New Wild West is the definitive account of what’s happening on the ground and what truly happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversight―and at what cost.

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