Boom Towns

How They Started

• Mining towns that would pop up over night
• Some would be there for a couple days, others became towns.

Transportation

• People would ride the Transcontinental railroad to the towns.
• They would work the whole day and ride the train back.
• They would need the transportation not just for arriving there but for bringing gold and minerals to the East

People

• Men would usually mine for the the different minerals. They were usually gold, silver, and oil.
• Woman had a big part in the towns, they would set up resturaunts and shops to cloth and feed the miners.

Life in the Boom Towns

• There were few people that were not rich.
• There were some that became rich off of a "strike".
• They would have to deal with frequent explosions, cave ins, fires, extremely hot temperatures, and dusty air.