Windfall Erika Bolstad

Windfall Erika Bolstad – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781728246949, 1728246946

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 1728246946
• ISBN 13: 9781728246949
• Author:  Erika Bolstad

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await… At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. As Erika’s mother was dying, she revealed more. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna’s land—and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history. Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew and the barely-acknowledged whisper that had followed her family across the Great Plains for generations: we could be rich. Desperate to learn more about her great-grandmother and the oil industry that changed the face of the American West forever, Erika set out for North Dakota to unearth what she could of the past. What she discovers is a land of boom-and-bust cycles and families trying their best to eke out a living in an unforgiving landscape, bringing to life the ever-present American question: What does it mean to be rich?

Table contents:

Part I
1. Fractured
2. Prairie Potholes
3. Rigged
4. The Boom
5. Past Is Prologue
6. Manifest Destiny
7. Motherless
8. Anna
Part II
9. A Woman Behind Every Tree
10. Long Underwear
11. The Mystery Baby-Making Boulder of Liberty, Illinois
12. Beatrice
13. Medora
14. The Bust
15. The Dollhouse
Part III
16. Hydrocarbons
17. Sans Souci
18. The Anthropocene
19. We Could Be Rich
20. Windfall

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