California’s early statehood was defined by the gold rush that started in the late 1840s, giving us the name “49ers.” Miners ...

With gold prices at record highs, jewelry collectors are in meltdown mode. For weeks, they’ve been scouring their homes and ...

In response to the Trump administration’s executive order to strengthen domestic production of critical minerals, the U.S.

In 1848, gold was discovered in California. News spread quickly, and suddenly the state experienced an influx of settlers ...

“In California, the scholarship is longstanding about the Gold Rush, and now moving it into K-12, that’s a little newer, but ...

"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 ...

"Mr. Rozier is still in this city, at the St. Charles where he would be glad to receive any information of the fugitive," the newspaper read ... early days of the gold rush.

Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.