Maya Rao is the author of “Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of an Oil Frontier.” Join the narrative of the great North Dakota oil rush as journalist Maya Rao immersed herself into the culture of the Bakken oil fields of western North Dakota. It’s a timely look at rural America that captures the danger, greed, hope, and absurdity of the largest oil boom in modern U.S. history.