percent and wages it three or four times more than the national average the promise of prosperity and desperate times is too great to ignore cheered by a common hope thousands of men and women throw themselves once again into a desperate rush towards the mythical american tree and at any cost. history repeats itself in the midst of his new no doubt the most impressive in u.s. history. they need there's more work out here than they got people to do it. don't believe. they still believe there's a dream oh yes i can still believe. it's like a gold rush it is very very similar to a gold rush. ponderous

fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for months he hears about the boom happening in williston. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own service company. bought the company and we had a sweeper truck and the situation williston went from a manageable situation where i would get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here and not complaining one big. very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like

someone who'd been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat like a buff a and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was amazing this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand dollars is a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days a week. well i guess i should get back to work. we're in an inhospitable land full of contrasts before the boom willison was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including florida emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that is most in this within its history and past. then you have another town the one that used to welcome this new wave of residents oil company settling down

a large numbers with the goal of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift and a real without so growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never cost me. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by for. the first game of the spring of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know is going to stand a whole tail it was like a hundred dollars and i was an ok hundred dollars a day seven days only seven hundred dollars on a course of a whole week and so i just can't in a conclusion you know what i get me a van fix it up so that you know i can be comfortable in it it makes financial sense because i get to keep the majority of my money versus just just on the way.

on housing and stuff like this. is my first of. it worse. and that's the biggest. cherry cannot survive very long it is winter temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time b. c. is ready everything has happened so quickly it's very hard to find a place to. make shift housing known as man camps mine up by the hundreds on the edge of town or close to drilling sites. these dormitory towns built by necessity and empty lots offer respect one hundred and one hundred fifty dollars a night two meals including. a two thousand and twelve the population living in these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand guys foam and now to florida nevada. cleveland you name it i've seen the license plate.

every week you know this is the best thing for single men you know i mean that's what i mean it's fun wages and. soon to be everything you know the whole country should be this way. because. this place will put like a stress on you know put away that you'll be carrying around on you and you're really realizing and when i went home i came back i noticed that weight pressure whatever you want to call it it builds up over time for me and. you you wouldn't come up here and there some reason for you to come up here you know nobody was moving up here. in two thousand and one i was moving up here in two thousand and

one or two thousand and so it wasn't until ok i can gain something financially and i can improve my situation i can better my status my situation or on the level that i met in life now and that's that's what the all fill up here really brought so a lot of people who were smart about it and save their money. because i'm telling you man i was asking a lot of. there's not much help here to do to keep you busy focused on something you know you know keep you time occupied you know is really allowed me to save all of my money and i'm in a position where you know i can go back home and your house. i just like the sound of it back and go back home about your house pay cash for a house not a car not a car but

a house. all around with just in the lease it's footprints on the landscape the fast as it leaves are covered for good by these horses for as far as the eye can see sweeney slowly to extract the black calls from the subtree interrupts. he became urgent to build four lane highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks transporting of kinds of pipes deaves sand and water used to track it. nothing was planted in advance everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work and the enormous influx of workers investors and the unemployed rushed in chasing neutrinos to grab the pieces of. german gun austrian gun italian american and my rifles just in case i need to kill

someone. most americans have guns in their house. and at the foot of my bed is a bible. most of my adult life was spent in universities doing teaching or research i went to the university of maine and got several degrees there in agricultural engineering information systems then i worked for mit on the human genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an area that had less than one percent unemployment. i came looking for work but i didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very

difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it's fun three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance after the first year i was very pliable i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had a hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence and in weaning this country of our foreign oil dependency. and america would sell its own mother for energy.

i live in st george utah. and my family's down there i need to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff we're getting there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drive a truck so i chose to drive truck. and i were usually twelve to fourteen hours to get my truck around eight o'clock in the morning and i work till eight o'clock at night you know somewhere between me and i . it's mentally.

not only my physically fit. but it's a mental thing. this is the moment that i like the best. pitch down enough to be everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away it's the end of the day. i live in a company headed by the company i have to share. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with a three hundred fifty pound guy. you get to pay for it.

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a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure come out you'll have to put me to the center of the pole with you and will show the all the great british you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going left go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the for the thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one it was also appreciate me to just read the review the aussie team's latest edition to make up as we go so i need to just say look. this is says holland kentucky. places you could work. a co money since he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal

miners have said i'd. love to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. running around trying to find a job and work here or there and it's not a good life. and my children have had some some problems so i spent a lot of money on my children and cumulated debt so.

the original plan was to come up here for six months and get out of debt but as i came up made money paid off some bills there were other things. happy birthday celestial. six six stitches yeah. well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial well i mean. i love you too and talk to you in the morning. any of you. i usually park the truck come back to the trailer here get a frozen meal. throw in microwave sit down to need it and.

if we're not too tired. my roommate nial have a bowl of ice cream and and watch part of a d.v.d. a little after. but most of time it and go to sleep i don't take a shower every night because we don't shower well there's a shower in the trailer but there's no running water. not a. done deal she. just has not solely attracted while workers. it was an opportunity for people like jeff and constance to change their lives to open a small business. and before i moved to boston i was in the health care industry and then a hospital administrator for several years in kansas. my project was going to live

and i wanted to be with my family first and i remember talking to some people was talking about wilson and about north dakota and this oil boom there's a lot of oil at your there's a lot of jobs you know one of opportunity for business willesden seem to have the best opportunities for us and my family and so we drove up to the local and we realized immediately there was a huge opportunity out here so many people out here there must have been at least thirty thousand people going through here and there were only five restaurants at the time and then we little bit closer and said ok what skill sets do we have that would be a good system and we thought that maybe if you don't shop there were so many other businesses have done here and the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and then go back home they don't think we're like and i think that's one of the big reasons with that since it's not just. a business for

us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community this supported us the deathly didn't help to se. we are current of it and we've always contributed . to. be a good bit a. lot of kids are going to be really excited to have know it's. we came here they didn't have a donut shop they hadn't had one for over. eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend till four and. they come in my shop all its high school who wants what it's. there are more families there are coming to wait list and now i go pick up the land and school and i see other kids you know on the asian kids african hispanic you know it's

a good sign the the community is growing. healthy with you know. crack lives in bozeman montana a small town six hundred miles away. has run out of options in his hometown and has decided to settle for willis and he knows he will not see his wife and two kids for several weeks. long hours behind the wheel with the hope that he will find work when he arrives when i leave my family like this i usually feel you know pretty lousy at times there was one incident years ago where my daughter was just in tears as i was leaving and it's like it's hard it's it's not fun it's hard but it's what has to be done. they're getting better at it they're getting used to it i'm getting used to it but i still like a brother be home. craig is the

way he's usually gone get me anywhere from about four weeks to this last level is eight weeks really. we'll see him for about eight weeks and then hokum home for about a week or so i think it's been hard for the kids because. they were told me that they feel like it's a broken home you know it's almost like we're divorced because we see so little of each other so it's just been really hard for them this is very similar to living on a ship or being on a boat you're gone for months and see you come back and you see the family for a short period of time and then take off on your ship again you're it's a great analogy it's exactly where it's like. we've all talked about this i think we could do with a little less so that he could spend more time with us and be more of a family. so i think i would rather have that happy family over

here some of the stuff that we he transfer died for us that watching my kids grow up it's difficult until and it's almost five years now there's no doubt about it but it's just it's what we have to do. adam had just lost his job in the oil business when he met us constance the couple was charged by the courage of a low power of this young man ready to do anything to save his family from misery. since then out of spends all his nights eating donuts. and doing three jobs right now working every day. trying to get some money i want to read ok. i've got two girls two daughters i want something better for where we live in

southern california is not a very nice place to live so it's a lot of crime. gangsters and stuff around so the north dakota a better place to raise a family. is a lot of resources here and you've got the salvation army and they feed you here at the methodist church and over it lutheran church down there. but i get food from work too at the donuts trying to send all my money home for my wife to pay the bills and rent it's enough to get by you know it's either it you know they pay one hundred a week or they guy me understand i have a family he wanted to say one hundred twenty five but if you drop it down to a hundred a week. you can. the american dream is that you can always chase i really believe that even during the

recession there were still opportunities for each is going to look for you got to be overwhelming or move to change that to get going and go go do it. now a lot of people do it but the ones they do with usually come out ahead wrong. because our country is never to stay or get all fifty states doing well. so we're always moving around. is remodeling homes and handyman work fifty in other people's problems mostly for homeowners residential it keeps me real busy. i build out usually about sixty hours a week i can easily put in a twelve hour day no promise you have to run you know my go to bank post office go see clients check on supplies orders stuff a lot of running around to do i love to work how i am a workaholic there's no doubt about it the money's nice but i like work just the

way my family is. and. these are some of the old cattle pens in corrals here some of the fallen apart completely but this is where they bring in the cattle to brand havoc have i have the facts work on them and stuff but now i can see it i don't use it anymore. it was kind of a tough life i mean you lose cattle they die and the winners and so on a hot summers and you know drought is just on i was going to happens gamble every day never made a lot of money doing it most are ranchers and farmers but they really don't want to do that anymore because they've got the palms down there that they can make money off of and the oil's put a lot a lot of money into their pockets so now they can do what they want you know take it easy work whatever they want to do so it's not as risky life's not as risky as you used to be.

you don't meet many people that are from. when i'm talking to a bunch of people i don't know and they say we're you from i say here they go what's. the most the people that lived here then they were dismayed to see this many people coming lot of people made a lot of money so i mean they like that the older folks that lived here on a fixed income renting an apartment they went from three hundred a month two thousand a month to rent so they're gone. i remember the

first time i drove over to the place and i was eighteen miles about and i counted fifty or oil rigs that i could see from the road and that's when it started getting crazy i thought you know the oil companies for the most part they're good until they start thinking that they can power right over here because they're big and powerful. one thing they do do and i asked them when they came out the first time they always send a woman along with the group to comes out and i asked him straight out i said is that because we will shoot a woman and he said yeah so. we never walk the house now i go take the key out all the time my back up we walk in the house we have alarm system in the house that changes just about everything. going to get my mail. now or

yet more and more neighbors. it's not the country anymore like it used to be a lot of these are people that have moved in with the oil. there is no place to buy in town they bought lots out here probably three four acres watch and build out here. because the slowness of the blue of them so money. to build your local was before. much of those who couldn't supply you or most knew they would use to see him we will. we will. move. move.

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