Simple History. Gold Fever! The 1849 Rush That Changed America. Posted: May 30, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025. In 1849, California turned from quiet frontier to chaos overnight.

That mascot was Prospector Pete, a personification of the 1849 California Gold Rush and the 49ers – the nickname for the sports teams since Long Beach State opened in 1949. It took a year or more.

But it wasn’t until the 1849 California Gold Rush that Asian immigration to the U.S. – from China – began on a mass scale. That was bolstered in the 1860s by Chinese laborers recruited to build the ...

The California gold rush – which attracted huge numbers of immigrants of Chinese ethnicity, among other backgrounds – picked up steam in San Francisco in 1849.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants descended upon Northern California during the height of the 1848 Gold Rush, and among them were thousands of Jewish pioneers.

When the first settlers came to the Sierra Nevada foothills in the late 1840s, they came for gold. Decades after the California Gold Rush ended in 1855, a different crop of settlers—including ...

In Gold Rush: White Water season 9 episode 3, the crew was very close to a big payday after discovering a gold nugget in Nugget Creek.All the pressure was on Dustin's crew, as he couldn't dive due ...

A.P.K. Safford, 1830-1891, served as governor of the Arizona Territory from 1869 to 1877. Courtesy of Farish 1918 ...

We’re in the middle of the Gold Rush 2.0. But this time folks aren’t making money finding gold – they’re making money selling it. With gold near an all-time high, selling for over $3,200 ...