CSPAN3 American Frontier December 3, 2016
Travel back to the 1950s when oil was discovered in north dakota. Filmican frontier is a produced by the American Petroleum institute. Narrator the wind blows west from the great lakes. The wind sings like a wild bird across the northern states, coming at last to this place. 10,000 square miles of prairie across montana and dakota. They call it the Williston Basin. Narrator not so long ago, this was frontier. Listen closely and you will hear the old echo of covered wagons, the phantom shadows of pioneers fighting for their lives against the wilderness. Lonely women wearing their dreams like a ...