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 ...

One of Gold Country’s oldest and richest mines — more than 165 tons of gold were extracted before it closed in 1956 — today the Empire is a California State Historic Park on 856 wooded acres.

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.

the old forty-niners; pioneers of california make merry. the forty-first anniversary of the discovery of gold celebrated -- eloquent gen. sherman. share full article. jan. 21, 1890.

Located on a shady Sacramento street, the white adobe-walled Sutter's Fort is a carefully preserved monument to the Gold Rush. Now a museum and grassy park, the fort belies the mania once ...

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 ...