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 ...

An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush. In 1852 the take for the year was $80 million ($1.9 billion in 2005 dollars). This map shows some of the ...

If you come across this special coin minted with gold from the California gold rush, you could be looking at a small fortune for yourself.

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Was the California Gold Rush good for America? Many of the participants in the California Gold Rush lost even more money than they began with, meaning that it was an opportunity to collect gold that ...

"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 ...

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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.

The nugget he had pulled from the mine near Sierraville, California, weighed a whopping eight pounds, so James Woolsey did what came naturally during the gold rush: he had his "likeness" taken to ...