“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 1852. These settlers were dubbed “forty-niners” after the year ...

The announcement touched off the event known in history as the California gold rush and the people involved as the forty-niners. Arkansas, and most of the U.S., was mired in an economic depression ...

His discovery led to an influx of around 300,000 settlers flocking to the state—named the "Forty-Niners" after the year 1849, which hit peak Gold Rush immigration. Most forms of gold mining have ...

But most of those prospectors—the so-called 49ers who came to California at the Gold Rush’s height in 1849—didn't get rich from their finds. This is their story. Portsmouth Square in San ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the ...