The lifestyles of the modern-day prospectors are not so far removed from that of the forty-niners. Sarina Finkelstein Nugget Alley is a fabled fork in the San Gabriel River just an hour outside ...
Did the forty-niners find gold? Northern California's American River was the site of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848. mostly men from the east, came from Europe, China, ...