Within this environment, San Francisco emerged as the greatest boom town, its population surging from 600 in 1848 to 25,000 in 1849. As the primary port of entry for seaborne “Argonauts” (people who ...

So many prospectors flocked to San Francisco during the gold rush in California that the city's population rose from 1,000 to 25,000 between 1848 and 1849. The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in ...

An anthropologist from California got more than he ... he was actually following the trail of the 1849 pioneers heading west in search of gold. However, that path took Freeman through a part ...

The 1849 Double Eagle Gold Coin is one of the rarest coins in U.S. history—not because it was minted in small numbers, but because only one known specimen exists today. The masterpiece was created ...

Boston and Rio de Janeiro – until he arrived in San Francisco in late 1849, at the height of the California Gold Rush. “Out West” his fortunes changed, and through a combination of ...

Having heard about the 1849 California Gold Rush, he caught gold fever and headed west in 1851. In Sacramento he met his childhood friend, future railroad Barron Collis Huntington, and worked with ...

Silver Reef's origins lay in the seismic ripples of the 1849 California Gold Rush, which surged eastward over the Sierra Nevada, igniting the Comstock Lode's silver bonanza in 1859.

In 1849, the discovery of gold in California ignited a frenzy ... From picks and shovels to tents and provisions, these providers became indispensable to the gold rush, profiting handsomely regardless ...

The $20 Liberty U.S. Gold Coin was minted between 1849 and 1907, representing a significant era in U.S. numismatic history. Known as the Double Eagle, this gold coin was introduced following the ...