And you can see the gold that started the rush. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold flakes while constructing Sutter’s Mill near...

And you can see the gold that started the rush. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold flakes while constructing Sutter’s Mill near...
Gold prospector Henry Wickenburg had been frustrated in his attempts to find the yellow metal. He’d missed Captain Joe Walker’s expedition up the...
A Yankee prospector’s scrapbook of his summer in Nome reveals the hardships of the Arctic gold rush. On a stormy May 23, 1900, Connecticut native...
May 10th, 1858, John Gregory made a big strike on the north fork of Clear Creek and the "Pike's Peak or Bust" gold rush was on. Gold camps sprung up...
Doctors were among the flood of 49ers heading for California during the Gold Rush. Many came not to practice medicine but to strike it rich. They...
On January 24th, 1848, James Marshall was constructing a tailrace for a lumber mill on South Fork of the American River. During the previous night,...
Six decades after the California Gold Rush, adventurous young men from around the world were still flooding the West seeking fame, fortune and, for...
John Stoefel had come to Colorado to get gold—any way he could. On April 7, 1859, just outside Denver, Stoefel shot and killed his brother-in-law,...
The big gold strikes at Bannack in 1862; Alder Gulch in 1863, which late became Virginia City; Last Chance Gulch in 1864, which became Helena and...
A white man from Tennessee arrived in the California gold camps with 3 slaves. He put them to work while he rested in town. This didn’t set well...
The First Gold Rush in American history wasn’t at Sutter’s Mill in the Sierra Nevada as most think, it took place near Charlotte, South Carolina in...
Follow the 1898 Klondike and Alaska miners’ overland route from Sacramento to Seattle.