Description: "Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. The collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the "Bakken Boom.""--
Review Quotes:
"Settling the Boom provides an interesting perspective on the Bakken shale episode. General readers will find much in it to compare with their own recollections of this period in North Dakota History."--North Dakota History