Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

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 society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch ...

Treasures recovered from a shipwreck that's been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean since 1857 are on tour before going up ...

"The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian. Most people did not survive it," Lim said. Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent ...

Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from ...

“It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall later would say. News of the riches would soon spread beyond across the United States, kick-starting a wave of mass migration to ...