Williston: The Boom Begins

by Bill Harvey

Shortly after the Texans figured out how to fracture shale formations for oil, North Dakota had become second only to Texas in domestic oil production and a little prairie town with little more than a grain elevator and a railroad depot came to be the center of a twenty-first century boom. Overnight, Williston North Dakota exploded. It was colder than the Alaskan Klondike, richer than California in 1949, and had more sin and sinners than Mark Twain’s Comstock. This is the story of horney young oil field workers, greedy lawyers, drunks & druggies, hookers –with hearts of gold and otherwise, and just a few regular decent people.

The rush was all about getting rich as soon as possible, but it’s also the story of the people who grew up in Williston farming and raising their families before anyone ever heard of fracking.

460 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2016

Reviews

[Aubrey West · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a struggle

I enjoyed the plot line but I almost quit on this book MANY TIMES!!!! The grammar almost made it unbearable to keep going. Only the last ten chapters were worth reading anyways