Boomtown

The true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas in 1927 ― and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it. Texas, 1927. Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas was founded, the press called it “the wickedest in the state" for good reason. The town, sprung into existence overnight to support the oilfields, had become a lawless haven for bootleggers, pimps and gamblers, run by a crooked city hall. That environment attracts some of the most unsavory characters in prohibitio