Wild Times in the North Dakota Bakken Fields w/ Maya Rao = Dark Side of Booms Part 2:

All about the Bakken oil region of North Dakota and the recent boom. Fast money and fast growth in a state that had peaked in the 1930's High volume trucking on unsuited roads, High wages matched by high rents and local price inflation, hungry outsiders and upset locals, and ubiquitous "Man camps". We speak with Maya Rao,,author of "Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier" Music by Lee Rosevere, Squire Tuck and Josh Armistead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices