More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

The state’s non-Indigenous population rose from an estimated 14,000 to nearly 100,000 by the end of 1849 and more than 250,000 by 1852 ... the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction.

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at ... and $81 million in 1852. After that, the take gradually declined until 1857, when it leveled off to about $45 ...

California's most prominent financial institution has been intimately tied to the city since its Gold Rush-era founding in 1852. But over the last several decades Wells Fargo has gobbled up rivals ...

He loved hearing and could recall in detail stories of multiple cross-county wagon-train trips to and from California ... the mystique of the gold rush days in Butte County.

The federal government has approved a bid for the Victorian Goldfields to seek World Heritage Listing, involving the Macedon ...

Ezekiel “Zeke” Denman had purchased the ranch in 1852, after striking it rich ... aspiring dairymen to the area for California’s “new gold rush,” making butter. The coastal prairie ...

Today the city of Palm Springs is the Las Vegas of California. It is a playground ... “And so they stole our land.” The Gold Rush and westward expansion brought American settlers to Cahuilla ...

But change is coming early in 2025 to the 35-room National Hotel, one of the most enduring symbols of California’s Gold Rush era. The building site dates back to 1852, when the Louisiana House, a ...

A view of Palm Canyon from the West Fork Trail, located in the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation in California ... so they stole our land.” The Gold Rush and westward expansion brought American ...