Natives of a Dry Place: Stories of Dakota Before the Oil Boom PB_Gift_Guide talented couple in the 1950s

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If you like quietly strong women

"-Ann Levin

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Natives of a Dry Place: Stories of Dakota Before the Oil Boom PB_Gift_Guide talented couple in the 1950sBefore the oil industry transformed western North Dakota, the natives of Stanley went about their normal, everyday lives. For generations, inhabitants of this wheat growing region developed a combination of resoluteness, steadfastness, devotion to the community, and ever present modesty. Contrasting these values with the trials of the modern oil boom community, author Richard Edwards examines the old town's virtues through the stories of those who