A ‘Windfall' leads journalist to North Dakota to discover family roots
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – Claims on mineral rights are often a hot topic in North Dakota. Roughly 12 million people in the United States have mineral ri...
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) – Claims on mineral rights are often a hot topic in North Dakota. Roughly 12 million people in the United States have mineral rights, according to the Mineral Answers website. Your News Leader spoke with one author who found out about her family's potential claim to fortune a while ago. Erika Bolstad's book 'Windfall' has been a decade in the making. She began slowly researching her family's past in 2013. Bolstad currently lives in Portland, Oregon, but she retraced her family roots back to North Dakota.