More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

The state’s non-Indigenous population rose from an estimated 14,000 to nearly 100,000 by the end of 1849 ... the gold rush by opening up shops and mining for gold. Even though California was ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to almost 100,000 people. Nearly two-thirds were Americans. Upon arrival in California, immigrants learned mining ...

The Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, (published by Elsevier eBooks in Holland) explains that one of the oldest-known ...

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PALO ALTO, Calif. and SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanford University Libraries (SUL) has assumed permanent stewardship of the California Historical Society Collection (CHS) ...

Obviously, the scare of Avian flu has led to a chicken shortage as those birds contracting the disease are slaughtered across the nation. That has created an egg shortage, which has resulted in ...