He first appeared, in historical texts, in 1861, as a professional gambler that made his way around mining boomtowns.
The 1890 brick and fieldstone addition was designed in an elaborate rendition of boomtown commercial architecture.
The boomtown days began to subside with the departure of the canal workers and the winding down of nearby logging operations.
Sometimes, resort towns can become boomtowns due to the quick development of retirement and vacation-based residences.
This event quickly and forever changed a small agricultural town into a military base boomtown.
As with any boomtown in the wild west, the only law is the law of the strongest.
The legendary and largest oil boomtown grew almost overnight, its population reaching 20,000 in 2 years, only to then fall to under 2,000.
Like most boomtowns, the population is highly transient and it's not unusual for people to go missing.
