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 ...

“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 ...

Despite the enormous danger, the forty-niners crossed the dangerous Sierra Nevada mountain range on the trial in California. In 1850, California became a state, with the gold rush increasing its ...

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 ...

Forty-Niner is an open-world Wild West survival game developed by VowelA. Players will set out to conquer the great outdoors in a Wild West-inspired adventure set during the gold rush of 1849.

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 ...