Many of our greatest boomers and speculators lost all hope; and more than one poor suicide so paid the price of his inordinate craving for wealth.
Indeed, had the plan of the boomers succeeded, the whole stretch between the two cities would have been solidly built up with what in the end proved, alas!
Shortly before the hour of noon, a number of boomerson the northern frontier made an effort to advance in spite of the protests of the soldiers on guard.
No law was discovered to punish theboomers and thus put a final end to the invasions.
During the Kansas boom of 1886 the land-boomers had their desks in the lobbies of banks, the windows of hardware stores--any place and every place offering room for a desk and chair.
Yet, with even-handed justice he kept the land boomers also out of these coveted lands, until the Dawes Act of 1887 allotted the tribal lands to the Indians in severalty and threw open the remainder to the impatient homeseekers.
Notice--We are prepared to bury boomers quicker and cheaper than any other house in the city.
Some returned Boomers who failed to get claims in the Oklahoma territory are said to be anxious that Col.
To this day some of theboomers say it was the grandest sight they ever beheld.
Four thousand boomers wouldn't make him their leader for nothing.
Dick saw his father was in no mental condition to locate claims, form a new mining company, and do other labor of this sort, and trusted that the days to be spent with the boomers would make him much stronger in both body and mind.
The cheering news from Washington had set Pawnee Brown at rest so far as his duty to the boomers was concerned, and he felt quite free to pursue his own affairs and those of his immediate friends.
Dick, and at once the leader of the land boomerscame to a halt.
Secreted in a tree or elsewhere he could fire a dozen shots or so into the air, and this would arouse both cavalrymen and boomers to think that actual hostilities had already started, and then neither side would longer hold off.
In less than a quarter of an hour a dozen stalwart boomers were in the saddle, while Jack Rasco brought forth an extra horse of his own for Brown's use.
He felt that the bill was not needed, yet it would be better to have such a law than to have some of the boomers killed before their rights could be established.
The letter had contained Nellie's photograph, and he showed it to Pawnee Brown as he asked for permission to leave his work of assisting the boomers to be prepared for a moving in order to pay Arkansas City another visit.
I take it you know what the boomers intend to do, and, if that is so, your information is just what the government wants.
Not caring to be seen in that town by the government agents, who might inform the cavalry that the boomers were moving in that direction, the scout took to a side trail, leading directly for the ravine mentioned in the letter.
For weeks the city had been filling up with boomerson their way to pre-empt land within the confines of Oklahoma as soon as it became possible to do so.
Yes; a land-office spy, now workin' ag'in the boomers fer the cavalry as intends ter keep us out of Oklahoma.
I had promised to take the boomers through and I felt that I had disappointed nearly four thousand people who were looking to me with utmost confidence.
This was followed by a grand rush of the boomersto get the best of the land granted to them.
No wonder all the boomersasked him to lead them in this expedition.
Many lots were given away by real estate boomers in those days to increase the population of the city.
During the Texas oil speculation one of the oil boomers came to Ben and offered him fabulous wages to take him around among his German clients to sell oil stock.
When I learned a few weeks ago that the boomers had taken hold of us in earnest and that we were due to acquire a real town with all the trimmings, I was righteously hot.
If it did nothing else, it would make us independent of these boomers that are coming in to sell us material at their own prices.
That the plans of the boomers would speedily breed chaos, and bring the blight of disorder and lawlessness upon the Niquoia project and everything connected with it, he made no manner of doubt.
Where there is one mine there may be more, later on; and I don't suppose that even such crazy boomers as the Cortwright crowd will care to put in a gold reduction plant.
What if the boomers were taking an unauthorized ell for their authorized inch?
By August the boomers had changed the original name to Spar City because of quantities of spar (or feldspar) in the area.
The town's population, after the usual boomers and drifters departed, was around three or four hundred.
Just you wait," he said, bulking big in the moonlight; "you wait till them Nevada boomers come.
This is some of the best land in Oklahoma, and we Boomers have known of it for a long while.
Before dark, five more Boomershad come to the grove.
The Boomers were still, Cindy felt, a special breed.
At the end of a few years, there was the great agitation over the boomers coming to the Oklahoma country, and much talk of the land being thrown open.
A few days after that, a gang of the La Junta boomers came to the ranch and wanted us to go back with them.
We skirmished up and down the main street, the boomers having bad luck all the time.
Not one of the boomers has cared a snap of his fingers for Ysleta's future.
Much as he had despised the boomers and their methods, as exemplified in the handling of Ysleta lots, when he came to dwell among the manipulators, familiarity with the men had modified and finally all but eliminated this feeling.
In self-confident pride she had looked down with contempt upon Ysleta boomersand their methods.
These boomersare trying to give nothing the appearance of something.
Winston was at first surprised, then deeply grateful for the genuine interest which even the wildest boomers displayed in his work.
Experienced Ysleta boomers saw in "Las Cruces" a new kind of boom, and beyond offering to put their experience and methods at the service of the new company, did nothing further.
The palms which the industrious boomers had planted along the streets, loomed hazily through the fog ahead, gradually sharpened in outline, and again grew hazy with distance, as they passed them by.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boomers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
