An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. The Californian Gold Rush of 1849. Many of the 'Forty niners' crossed the United States from the east to the Gold fields of California ...

For the first time, hundreds of Gold Rush-era artifacts entombed in the wreckage ... The historical booty includes an 1849 Colt pocket pistol and 1850s paper currency recovered from the purser's ...

For the first time, hundreds of Gold Rush-era artifacts entombed in the wreckage ... The historical booty includes an 1849 Colt pocket pistol and 1850s paper currency recovered from the purser's ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...

The state’s non-Indigenous population rose from an estimated 14,000 to nearly 100,000 by the end of 1849 and more than ... the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction.