This story begins the place numerous good tales do — with an envelope, and the cash inside that envelope.
Journalist Erika Bolstad inherited the proper to drill oil below a part of her great-grandmother’s homestead in North Dakota. As a substitute, she dug up the reality behind household legends and wrestled with the ethics of land possession and fossil fuels within the American West.
Bolstad is the creator of a brand new guide referred to as “Windfall: The Prairie Girl Who Misplaced Her Approach and The Nice-Granddaughter Who Discovered Her.”
The guide traces Bolstad’s quest to know the story of her ancestor, Anna Haraseth, and follows the expansion of the oil business in North Dakota, together with the advanced environmental and social pressures that drilling is inflicting on the land.
Bolstad shall be at Third Place Books Ravenna Thursday, Jan. 19 to debate “Windfall” as a part of a free occasion at 7 p.m. You may register on-line right here.
Hearken to Soundside’s full dialog with Erika Bolstad by clicking the “play” button on the audio above.