The native tribes of California saw themselves as stewards not owners of the land. The white settlers who arrived during the ...

President James K. Polk, at the end of a year of fantastical rumors of riches in the Sierra Nevada, ignited the California Gold Rush with his State of the Union address on this day in history, Dec. 5, ...

The discovery of gold in1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries ...

This video explores Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, where gold was discovered in January 1848 and triggered the California Gold Rush. What began as a small sawmill project quickly turned into one of the ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32bxk5.5 ...

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. As many as 25,000 miners headed to California over ...

Reliving the Gold Rush through a fictional guidebookI would like to take you, the reader, to the scene of the California Gold ...

Historians are revealing the hidden contributions of Black Americans who sought fortune in the California Gold Rush.

Discover what 1849 prospectors actually ate on the frontier, from pricey eggs and sourdough to the legendary, decadent Hangtown Fry.