It's been a decade since the Great Recession sent unemployment and foreclosures soaring in most parts of the country, but even during dark times, there was a bright light fueled by an oil boomtown in North Dakota. In Williston, North Dakota, pumpjacks stand tall in bright yellow sunflower patches and work in rhythm amid vast fields of wheat atop the Bakken oil patch in a town that's nestled in the small northwest corner of the state just 80 miles from the Canadian border.
