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<p>In this Tuesday, July 26, 2011 photo, Austin Mitchell, right, takes a break with Ben Shaw, left, and Ryan Letho, center, while working an oil derrick outside of Williston, N.D. With what many are calling the largest oil boom in recent North American history, temporary housing for the huge influx of workers, known as "man camps," now dot the sparse North Dakota landscape. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)</p>

<p>In this Tuesday, July 26, 2011 photo, Austin Mitchell, right, takes a break with Ben Shaw, left, and Ryan Letho, center, while working an oil derrick outside of Williston, N.D. With what many are calling the largest oil boom in recent North American history, temporary housing for the huge influx of workers, known as "man camps," now dot the sparse North Dakota landscape. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)</p>

September 2, 2011

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Life on an oil field 'man camp' - not for everyone
September 2, 2011 9 p.m.

Life on an oil field 'man camp' - not for everyone

WILLISTON, N.D. - You can almost smell the opportunity along U.S. Highway 2. It oozes deep from the sloping North Dakota prairie where oil derricks and natural gas wells sprout among the drying rolls of hay.