Smith, 18, was a member of the Mormon Battalion Company B that bivouacked at Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside. Smith was ...

Bohemia Mining Days returns to Cottage Grove this week for its 66th year to celebrate the region’s Gold Rush-era history. The festival runs Thursday through Saturday and features live music, ...

The gold and silver markets are about to open. And shortly we'll find out how silver responds in the Far East following Thursday and Friday's staggering rally.

About a decade before silver was discovered in Nevada, the West’s first consequential mining boom occurred on the other side ...

Step back in time to Coloma, California, the historic ghost town where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the ...

This is not the first gold rush in history. There have been several. One notable one is known as the California gold rush(1848-1855) when ...

Carpenter James W. Marshall discovered gold flakes in Coloma, a small town on the American River in the United States, on January 24, 1848. This sparked the Gold Rush, a mass movement of fortune ...

The California Gold Rush occurred primarily in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Gold was first discovered at a sawmill along the American River near what is now Coloma, California.

Sojourning in Gold Mountain at Hong Kong Museum of History shines a light on migrants’ journeys from China to San Francisco in the 1800s.

COLOMA, Calif. – This weekend, you can step back in time to California’s gold rush era. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park and Gold Discovery Park Association will commemorate the an… ...

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

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