The discovery last decade that fossil fuels could be tapped from rock deep beneath the windswept prairies of North Dakota acted like a magnet on American working people. By the thousands they came, from as far as Texas and California, fortune-seekers in a modern-day Gold Rush. Photographs by Daniel Acker and Matthew Staver
Jennifer Oldham, Lynn Doan, Asjylyn Loder, Tim Loh, Tara Lachapelle, Jim Polson, Robert Tuttle and Bob Ivry
