The Boom Towns cover

The Boom Towns

Author: Staeger, Rob

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.1
Points 1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 8896
Points per Word 0.000112
Series American West

Description

As people moved west to settle the great open regions of the United States, many towns sprang up almost overnight. The tales of the towns in this book help to explain how frontier towns were started and why they either survived or became ghost towns.