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 was 175 years ago — on February 18, 1850 — that Sacramento became a California county. A lot has changed since those early ...

My family had resided in these geographical ... before the Spanish and certainly before the coming of the Gold Rush. People in native California were living in sparsely settled villages throughout ...

A historic 14,000-acre Northern California ranch established around the time of the Gold Rush has hit the real ... Parker and acquired by the Newton family in 1961, according to California Outdoor ...

View the video clips below to see the effects the Gold Rush had on the state of California and the country. Marcia Eymann visited the Center for Sacramento History and talked about the California ...

Many communities through Gold Rush California offered bounties for Indian ... who shared with me a story from her family history. She said her village was attacked somewhere along the Navarro ...

Jaguars Clash With Miners Amid Gold Rush, Jaguars Clash With Miners Why A Londoner Became a Backwoods California Gold Prospector Why A Londoner Became a Backwoods California Gold Prospector Read ...

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery. The spirit of the ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the ...