MSNBC Dateline December 9, 2019 06:45:00
The exclusive right to drill for oil on 640 acres of land on the mha indian reservation. the catch was that sort of opportunity doesn't come cheap. >> so you had to raise some money. >> oh, yeah. the lease was almost $2 million. >> and to raise that, doug carlile tapped his business partners and even his kids. >> i put $100,000 in it. it wasn't for a return or anything. it was to help him with his dream to fulfill that. >> but the next step to fulfilling doug's dream was even more daunting. finding investors to pay for drilling as many as eight wells on the property and that price was much ste...