One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery.The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those ...

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. These settlers were dubbed “forty-niners” after the ...

One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery.The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those ...

In the two decades following California’s Gold Rush beginnings, 80 percent of its Native American population was lost. Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold.

Jedidiah Watson is a sixth-generation descendant of Jewish Gold Rush pioneers. His family immigrated from what was once the Province of Posen in Prussia—now modern-day Poland—following the ...

The Californian Gold Rush of 1849. Many of the 'Forty niners' crossed the United States from the east to the Gold fields of California in 'Conestoga' wagons, broad wheeled vehicles with canvas ...

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