Highway To Hell Chapter 1

Boomtown by Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

Dec 10, 201946:16Society & Culture

Host Christian Wallace takes us back to his hometown in the Permian Basin, which is nearly unrecognizable to him today. We meet a few of the people whose lives have been upended by the biggest oil boom in U.S. history. U...

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