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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 its analysis by describing the impact of the latest boom on the region’s physical geography, politics, economics, and social structure.
Sixty Years of Boom and Bust addresses topics as relevant today as they were in 1958: the natural and built environment, politics and policy, crime, intergroup relations, and access to housing and medical services. In addition to making hard-to-find material readily available, it examines an area shaped by resource booms and busts over the course of six decades. As a result, it provides unprecedented insight into the patterns of develop- ment and the roots of the challenges the region has faced.
Kyle Conway is an associate professor of communication at the University of Ottawa.
ISBN
978-1-7345068-4-6
DOI
10.31356/dpb014
Publication Date
2020
Geographic Subjects
Williams County (N.D.)--Economic conditions; Mountrail County (N.D.)--Economic conditions; North Dakota--Economic conditions; North Dakota--Social conditions; Bakken Formation
Publisher
The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
City
Grand Forks, ND
Keywords
Petroleum industry and trade--Economic aspects--North Dakota ; Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects--North Dakota ; Oil fields--North Dakota ; Business cycles--North Dakota ; Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects
Personal Subjects
Conway, Kyle, 1977-; Caraher, William R. (William Rodney), 1972-
Recommended Citation
Conway, Kyle, "Sixty Years of Boom and Bust: The Impact of Oil in North Dakota, 1958-2018" (2020). Digital Press Books. 14.
https://commons.und.edu/press-books/14
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