boom town

Los Angeles was a boom town in the early 1910s and a war zone between the forces of labor and capital.

A novelist, she had written the bestselling “Annie Jordan,” about a plucky heroine in boom town Seattle modeled on her pioneer family.

Marysville was a gold rush boom town, more populous in 1860 than any other city in the state except for San Francisco and Sacramento.

Laukkaing took on the character of a Wild West boom town, where anything goes and anything can be bought and sold.

Reminiscent of a frontier boom town, the human-built industrial port refines fossil fuels at a relentless pace.