Sixty Years of Boom and Bust: The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018

by Kyle Conway, Brent L. Willis, Ross B. Talbot

In the 1950s, North Dakota experienced its first oil boom in the Williston Basin, on the western side of the state. The region experienced unprecedented social and economic changes, which were carefully documented in a 1958 report by four researchers at the University of North Dakota. Since then, western North Dakota has undergone two more booms, the most recent from 2008 to 2014. Sixty Years of Boom and Bust republishes the 1958 report and updates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734506830
• ISBN13: 9781734506839
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Digital Press at the University of North Dako
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"