On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a ...

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

History Detective Wes Cowan visits California gold mining sites and talks with Gold Rush curators to reveal the story behind a caricature-style drawing by the well-known Gold Rush photographer ...

Known as the Gold Spring Boys, Hill's neighbors didn't believe he was Rozier's property. They had spent months trying to extricate Hill from the white man's clutches. California was a free state ...

The nugget he had pulled from the mine near Sierraville, California ... pictures." For a short window of time it was a free-for-all, as people worked shoulder to shoulder toward the same goal--gold.