blaise bohrs grew up in the 1980 's in a small brick house on a largely untilled square of land on the furthest edge of this prairie metropolis that had not grown as far as it had dreamed it would , thanks to the oil bust , which itself was nothing more than the implosion of a speculation scheme dreamt up by men in cowboy hats strutting around like they were characters from the tv show `` dallas '' until they believed their own lie and started selling east coast bankers worthless paper with no oil under the ground to back it up .