An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at ... increasingly based on wage labor, the idea that a person could alter his destiny by collecting gold off the ground ...

The white, heavy-duty miner’s pants with a five-button fly were among 270 Gold Rush-era artifacts that sold ... of its kind went for $99,600. An 1849 Colt pocket pistol sold for $30,000.

Gold’s rush to a new all-time high of $2347.58 an ounce earlier today, up $97.50 (4.3%) in a week is starting to split opinions about what comes next with optimists seeing $3000/oz within reach ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at ... increasingly based on wage labor, the idea that a person could alter his destiny by collecting gold off the ground ...