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Book: Towns of the West, from Boom to Bust
Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203099-5
Introduction
1. Most of the population lived in the East Coast of the United States.
2. The Louisiana Purchase
Chapter 1: The Boom Begins
3. Forty-niners
4. A prospector is someone who is searching for gold.
5. True
6. A boomtown is a combination of houses, stores and sleeping lodges in close proximity.
7. Supplies were scarce in the Old West. A shovel might cost $50. A box of sleep in might cost $100. A glass of water could cost $50.
Chapter 2: Life in the Boomtowns
8. The Old West had immigrants from all over Europe, Asia, and South America.
9. California was a free state.
10. False
11. The women who came to the west worked on farms that supplied food to miners, they tended to animals, drove stagecoaches and chased bandits.
12. No, they couldn’t.
13. Yes
14. Women were able to make their own money, own land, stores, and hotels.
15. Mexican ranchers and Native Americans were forced out/off their lands.
16. No, Native Americans were not U.S. citizens.
Chapter 3: From Boom to Bust
17. Yes, it was dangerous to live in the west.
18. A claim jumper is a person who takes over someone else’s land and steals their rights to nay gold found there.
19. No, not at boomtowns had sheriffs.
20. A sheriff was responsible from 100s to 1000s of people.
21. The only thing townspeople had to fight fires were a few barrels of rainwater or water from a nearby stream.
22. The townspeople formed bucket brigades.
23. A ghost town is a boomtown that people deserted.
24. Today’s example of a boomtown is Silicon Valley.
Book: Towns of the West, from Boom to Bust
Author: Dan Furey
ISBN: 978-0-02-203099-5
Introduction
1. Most of the population lived in the East Coast of the United States.
2. The Louisiana Purchase
Chapter 1: The Boom Begins
3. Forty-niners
4. A prospector is someone who is searching for gold.
5. True
6. A boomtown is a combination of houses, stores and sleeping lodges in close proximity.
7. Supplies were scarce in the Old West. A shovel might cost $50. A box of sleep in might cost $100. A glass of water could cost $50.
Chapter 2: Life in the Boomtowns
8. The Old West had immigrants from all over Europe, Asia, and South America.
9. California was a free state.
10. False
11. The women who came to the west worked on farms that supplied food to miners, they tended to animals, drove stagecoaches and chased bandits.
12. No, they couldn’t.
13. Yes
14. Women were able to make their own money, own land, stores, and hotels.
15. Mexican ranchers and Native Americans were forced out/off their lands.
16. No, Native Americans were not U.S. citizens.
Chapter 3: From Boom to Bust
17. Yes, it was dangerous to live in the west.
18. A claim jumper is a person who takes over someone else’s land and steals their rights to nay gold found there.
19. No, not at boomtowns had sheriffs.
20. A sheriff was responsible from 100s to 1000s of people.
21. The only thing townspeople had to fight fires were a few barrels of rainwater or water from a nearby stream.
22. The townspeople formed bucket brigades.
23. A ghost town is a boomtown that people deserted.
24. Today’s example of a boomtown is Silicon Valley.
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