A Trip to Kuwait (on the Prairie)
Life Inside the Boom
By Laura Gottesdiener
At 9 p.m. on that August night, when I arrived for my first shift as a cocktail waitress at Whispers, one of the two strip clubs in downtown Williston, I didn’t expect a 25-year-old man to get beaten to death outside the joint. Then again, I didn’t really expect most of the things I encountered reporting on the oil boom in western North Dakota this past summer.
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Sunday, October 12, 2014
A Trip to Kuwait (on the Prairie) Life Inside the Boom
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