On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall ... wealth during the gold rush by opening up shops and mining for gold. Even though California was deemed a free state, however, many regions ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered ... Mason's report in his December 5, 1848 State of the Union address did ...

The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes. By 1870, an estimated 30,000 native people remained in the state of California, most on ...

The rush for gold that began in California in 1848 and for silver in Nevada in 1859 filled the West ... In a report on the phenomenon, a state geologist helpfully recommended that “though ...