i 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. there is 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 only 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 sure i'm not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like someone who had been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat like a buff a day 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. here. 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 border emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that has motion this within its history of the past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence 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 boring up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never custom made. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by. all around with just in the boom lisa's footprints on the landscape the fast as airplanes are covered for good by these horse heads for as far as the eye can see sweeney slowly to extract the black calls

from the subtree interrupts. it became urgent to build four lane highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks transporting all kinds of pipes beams sand and water used in fracking. nothing was planted advance everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work of the enormous influx of workers investors and the unemployed rushed in chasing their dream to grab a piece of the pie. german guy an austrian guy italian an 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 spun 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 playable 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. 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 . mentally. not only my physically fit. but it's mental fatigue.

this is the moment that i like the best. reached down enough to see everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away. i live in company housing here it's provided by the company i have to share. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with a three hundred fifty pound guy. he gets. done.

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run around trying to find a job and work here there and it's not a good life for. my children who have had some some problems so i spent a lot of money helping 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 off some bills there were other things. i am. the birth of a celestial. six

sixth inches. well i'm glad you're feeling better celestial well i mean. i love you too and party in the morning. of you. are usually the truck come back to the trailer here you have 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. on the last. 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. and we don't see. this boom has not solely attract unoiled workers. it was an opportunity for people like jeff and constance to change their lives to open a spa 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 about north dakota and the oil boom there's a lot of oil out here and there's a lot of jobs lot of opportunity for business willesden seemed 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 the work so many other businesses have done here in the old timers they all think that foreigners coming here to take their money and go back home they don't think we're like that and i think that's one of the reasons we don't since it's not just. a business for us we are part of the community if we were embraced by the community they supported us the deathly didn't they helped us out. we are current of it and we're always contributed. to. be a good day to day. 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 haven't had one for over. eight years most of these kids never had a girlfriend till four and. they come into my shop all its high school board was wow go go nuts. there are more families that are coming to my 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 me you know we need to. create lives in bozeman montana a small town six hundred miles away. he is right 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 says the way he's usually gone anywhere from about four weeks to this last one was eight weeks really. we didn't 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 why. we've all talked about this and 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 little power of this young man ready to do anything to save his family from misery. since then adam spends all his nights eating donuts. and doing three jobs right now working every day. trying to get some money i want to relocate my family you. got to grows two daughters i want something better form where we lived in southern california is not a very nice place to live so it's a lot of crime. gangsters and browns of the north dakota a be 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 the methodist church 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 just be the rich you know. one hundred a week or no guys me understand i have a family he wanted to say one hundred twenty five but he's dropped it down to a hundred a week. 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 of the wrong. because our country is never the stable across the whole it's very rare to have all fifty states doing well it's also rare to have all fifty states do and poorly so

we're always moving around that's part of our national character it's always find new opportunities wherever they may be. what i do here pretty much is remodeling homes and handyman work fixing other people's mistakes and other people's problems mostly for homeowners residential it keeps me real busy. i bill 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 to work just the way my family is. 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 brando and have the calves

i have the fats 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 the hot summers and you know drought you just don't know what's going to happen gamble every year they 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 her pocket so now they can do what they want you know take it easy work whatever they want to do so now it's not as risky life's not as risky as you used to be.

a leader. 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 and they go what. 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 and rent so they're gone. i remember the first time i drove out 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 we

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 initial group to comes out and i asked him straight out i said is that because we will shoot a woman and he said you know. we never walk the house now i go take the key out. all of time at my pickup we walk in the house with no alarm system in the house could change just about everything. going to get my me own. power yet more and more neighbors. it's not the country anymore like it used to be a lot of these are people who moved in with the oil. there was no place to buy in

town they bought lots over here probably three four acres watch and build out here . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic devolved into only closely i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. for a man or sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row

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