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 ...

To locals and visitors alike, she’s the jovial bartender welcoming everyone to Washington, a former Gold Rush boomtown. Blake, 47, raised four now-adult sons in town. She chose to live in this ...

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 ...

J. B. Carnahan was one of them. Then, almost overnight, the sleepy town of Fairbanks became a boomtown. Not since Gold Rush days had the inhabitants seen so much activity. All of sudden Fairbanks ...

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