Roughly 80 miles southwest of Puerto Maldonado, the gold rush boomtown of Huepetuhe lies at the foot of the Andes. It’s the summer of 2010. Muddy streets are pocked with puddles the size of ...

Harmony Blake works the bar on Mondays at the Washington Hotel, where she’s known around the Sierra town for her mean chicken piccata. To locals and visitors alike, she’s the jovial bartender ...

Look up the word “boomtown” in the Oxford Dictionary ... of times throughout the history of America — think the Gold Rush out West or the rise of New York in the East — but to Frederick ...

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 ...

Ivey drove his RV to this lab, run by the state's Archaeological Research Center, to participate in the excavation of a ...