The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (999 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250064929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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With Briody as your guide, you'll see, feel, and understand the motives, choices, and challenges that defined the New Wild West." Adam Skolnick, author of One Breath: Freediving, Death and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits"Briody shows a remarkable talent for explaining the societal shifts wrought by the new american oil boom through individual stories. With elegance, incisiveness and heart, Blaire Briody weaves snapshot stories of those recession refugees attracted to and affected by the North Dakota oil boom. Insightful, deeply reported, and at times heartbreakingly personal, Blaire Briody’s The New Wild West brings us face to face with the walking wounded of America’s domestic energy boomthe preacher fallen from grace, the young couple struggling to hold their family together, the roughnecks and drivers who all came looking for that most elusive of natural resources, a sec
Margolis Award for emerging journalists in 2014. She graduated from UC Davis with a degree in international relations. . BLAIRE BRIODY is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large for The Fiscal Times. She has written for The New York Times, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, Fast Company, Glamour, among others. The New Wild West was the 2016 finalist for the Lukas Work-in-Progress Award from Columbia Journ
Written in the vein Ted Conover and Jon Krakauer, using a mix of first-person adventure and cultural analysis, The New Wild West is the definitive account of what’s happening on the ground and what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversightand at what cost.. But for every person chasing the American dream, there is a darker sidereports of violence and sexual assault skyrocketed, schools overflowed, and housing prices soared. Real estate is such a hot commodity that tent cities popped up, and many workers’ only option was 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