Boomtown: A town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity. Look up the word "boomtown" in the Oxford Dictionary, and ...

To locals and visitors alike, she’s the jovial bartender welcoming everyone to Washington, a former Gold Rush boomtown. Blake, 47, raised four now-adult sons in town. She chose to live in this ...

A boomtown of incredible wealth during the Gold Rush-era, Virginia City is located a 45-minute drive from Reno, Nevada. High in the hills, this rough-edged Western town is wonderfully preserved ...

J. B. Carnahan was one of them. Then, almost overnight, the sleepy town of Fairbanks became a boomtown. Not since Gold Rush days had the inhabitants seen so much activity. All of sudden Fairbanks ...

Like a modern-day gold rush, workers have flocked to Williston for work and paychecks that can't be found anyplace else in the U.S. The hours on the job here ensure that even a modest hourly wage ...

Paramount announced Wednesday that its hit show Landman will have a second season. Since its November debut, the series has ...

Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.