An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...

If you come across this special coin minted with gold from the California gold rush, you could be looking at a small fortune ...

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues ... to nearly 100,000 by the end of 1849 and more than 250,000 by ...

The California gold rush started in 1849 with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, part of what is now the world-famous Mother Lode, and ASX-listed tiddler ...

starting the California Gold Rush of 1849. Today, Coloma preserves their history at the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, where visitors can visit the on-site museum, learn how to pan ...

Laura Fair approached Alexander Parker Crittenden and his family on a San Francisco-bound ferry. She shouted at him that he ...

Rohrbough, a historian and author of Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. “There was no license you had to buy. There was no central authority. This was one of the ...

"The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian. Most people did not survive it," Lim said. Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent ...

California’s natural treasures are as expansive as the ... a gold nugget and Torah mantle from the 1849 gold rush, and explore the lives of famous Californians, ranging from Cesar Chavez and Black ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...