This time around, it seemed, things would be different.Д«ut as soon as the price of oil dropped late last year, things began to unravel, and rigs started to close. Just over a year ago, North Dakota was producing more than one million barrels of oil per day, more than any state but Texas. вЂњYour grandchildrenвЂ™s grandchildren will be working in the Bakken,вЂќ Lynn Helms, director of the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources, said in October. Though many native North Dakotans remembered the oil bust in the late 1980s, this time it was easy to believe that the boom would last. Early this year, it slipped from that coveted spot. For seven straight years, North Dakota boasted the lowest unemployment rate in the country.

North DakotaвЂ™s sudden success coincided with an economic slump in the rest of the country job seekers rushed to the state fleeing hard times. High-school graduates earned six-figure salaries in the oil fields, and cash flowed into the hands of those lucky enough to own the mineral rights to land rich with oil. As more and more companies have stopped drilling following the decline in the price of oil last year, the term has become all too familiar.Дuring the good times, jobs were plentiful and businesses prospered. These once-great moneymakers that drew thousands to the state are now idle, or вЂњstacked,вЂќ in the lingo of the oil fields. Similar graveyards have been popping up across the western half of the state since the price of oil sharply declined last fall. The occasional lone truck rattles along a dirt road. Drilling rigs stretch into the sky like tall skeletons. In a field of brittle yellow grass and clotted mud about five miles north of Dickinson, North Dakota, stands a cemetery of sorts.

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