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020    1610396464|q(hardcover) 
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100 1  Rao, Maya,|eauthor. 
245 10 Great American outpost :|bdreamers, mavericks, and the 
       making of an oil frontier /|cMaya Rao. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPublicAffairs,|c2018. 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    vii, 324 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and 
       index. 
505 00 |gThe advancement of man.|tIntroduction --|tI should be 
       dead --|tTales at the water depot --|tBeyond the eyes of 
       Roosevelt --|tThe wild bison --|tWilliston Brewing Company
       --|tGreat American scam --|tStreetlights --|tA fugitive at
       the border --|tEdge of the world --|gFree market rhapsody.
       |tThe sheer emptiness of it --|tNobody lives here --
       |tEvolution --|tEmpire of junk --|tRight-minded people --
       |tCapitalism is legal --|tA great steaming pile of money -
       -|tBallad of La Bruta --|gOf riches and reality.|tThe 
       dinner party --|tPeyton Place on the plains --|tDeal 
       junkies --|tGoing to war --|tThe derrick goes sideways --
       |t$100 oil to $1 beer --|tNat Geo's in town --|tFracking 
       hell --|gTrials of civilization.|tWasteland --|tThe perils
       at twenty feet -- Pipelining blues --|tYou chose oil over 
       us --|tExodus --|tBile of the subterranean --|tFrigid 
       despair --|tThis is your treasure. 
520    "A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that 
       portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a 
       century transformed a forgotten corner of the American 
       West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North 
       Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, 
       Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of 
       drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an 
       eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly 
       immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-
       day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price 
       war against the US oil industry. She rode shotgun with a 
       surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and 
       dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during 
       the financial crisis, and reported on everyone in between-
       including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired
       in scandal, and a hard-drinking British Ponzi schemer-in a
       social scene so rife with intrigue that one investor 
       called the oilfield Peyton Place on steroids. As the boom 
       receded, a culture of greed and recklessness left 
       troubling consequences for investors and longtime 
       residents. Empty trailers and idle oil equipment littered 
       the fields like abandoned farmsteads, leaving the pioneers
       who built this unlikely civilization to reckon with their 
       legacy. Part Barbara Ehrenreich, part Upton Sinclair, 
       Great American Outpost is a sobering exploration of twenty
       -first-century America that reads like a frontier novel."-
       -Inside jacket flap. 
650  0 Oil fields|zNorth Dakota|xHistory. 
650  0 Petroleum industry and trade|zNorth Dakota|xHistory. 
650  7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Natural Resource 
       Extraction.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL,
       IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)|2bisacsh 
651  0 North Dakota|xHistory. 
655  4 Nonfiction. 
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