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

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

A new analysis puts Utah 10th place in the nation for its number of gold locations, but don't necessarily grab a pan and go out there and pan for the precious resource.

Explore all about California—its flag, map, geography, history, key facts, and education system. Learn what makes the Golden ...

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

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

Explore the forgotten history of Jewish pioneers in California's Gold Rush era, preserved by the Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants descended upon Northern California during the height of the 1848 Gold Rush, and among them were thousands of Jewish pioneers.

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 ...

Since the late 1840s, people have been flocking to California with big dreams. This was when the state experienced a tremendous boom due to the discovery of gold. So, what was the California Gold Rush ...

This small piece of yellow metal is believed to be the first piece of gold discovered in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in California, launching the gold rush. National Museum of American History It is a ...

On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, a discovery that sparked the California gold rush. Some former members of the Mormon Battalion worked ...