“It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall ... 100,000 by the end of 1849 and more than 250,000 by ...

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 ...

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, ...

The lifestyles of the modern-day prospectors are not so far removed from that of the forty-niners ... and author of Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation.

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story. Historians tell Insider the era touted for discovery and expansion is actually responsible for one of the bloodies periods in US history - a ...