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

In the spring of 1849 Luzena and Mason Wilson packed their ... Chile and China -- to make money in the gold rush economy. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp, who wrote about the mining camps under ...

"Mr. Rozier is still in this city, at the St. Charles where he would be glad to receive any information of the fugitive," the newspaper read ... early days of the gold rush.