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 ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

A fire in San Ramon Wednesday morning severely damaged the historic 19th-century Harlan House, also known as El Nido House, ...

The California gold rush began in 1848, when gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought 300,000 people from across the U.S. and abroad to California.

In 1848, gold was discovered in California. Over the next decade, hundreds of thousands of prospectors surged into the state, ...

With the 150th anniversary of the California Gold Rush upon us, ... California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858. An Exhibition at The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., ...

Indeed, two 1848 events — California’s Gold Rush and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo — essentially re-founded the United States with different peoples, borders, and aspirations. The Gold Rush drew not ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.

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 ...

The California gold rush began in 1848, when gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought 300,000 people from across the U.S. and abroad to California. 4 minutes ...