People said Williston, North Dakota, would boom for decades. Instead, Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith learned, it went the way of every other legendary boomtown Life in a modern boomtown is living on the frontier but with a smartphone. "Capitalism on crack" is the way historian Clay Jenkinson referred to it - everyone taking what they can get, as fast as they can. I spent nearly a year in an oil boomtown: from summer of 2013 to winter of 2014, I worked in the Bakken oil patch out of Williston, No...
People said Williston, North Dakota, would boom for decades. Instead, Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith learned, it went the way of every other legendary boomtown Life in a modern boomtown is living on the frontier but with a smartphone. "Capitalism on crack" is the way historian Clay Jenkinson referred to it - everyone taking what they can get, as fast as they can. I spent nearly a year in an oil boomtown: from summer of 2013 to winter of 2014, I worked in the Bakken oil patch out of Williston, No...
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