I n 1848, gold was discovered in California. Over the next decade, hundreds of thousands of prospectors surged into the state, eager for their own shot at striking riches, crouched over a stream ...

In the 1850s, it grew from a miners’ outpost into a Gold Rush boomtown of 10,000 (heavy on the bars and brothels) before anyone got around to naming that other Nevada as a territory or a state.

But when the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90 percent of its territory. For the last two decades, the Yurok Tribe has been working with the nonprofit Western Rivers Conservancy to get ...

The Yurok Tribe had 90% of its territory taken during the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, suffering massacres and disease from settlers. California. Lake Tahoe 21 hours ago ...

However, not everyone who made the arduous trek to California in the mid-19 th century was seeking gold. Many — including those in the ill-fated 1846 Donner Party — wanted farmland.

In the largest land back conservation deal in California's history, ... The United States took control of 90% of Yurok land during the California gold rush, which lasted from 1848 to 1855.

Environmental advocates and local tribes in Inyo County are rallying against a proposed gold mining project that threatens to upend an expanse of California’s high desert near Death Valley ...

Heart Rock Ranch, a 380-acre property in El Dorado County, California, with luxury lodge, wine cave, trails, Gold Rush artifacts, for sale.

Curated by Cheryl Haines, "Black Gold: Stories Untold" at Fort Point National Historic site documents the lives and experiences of African Americans in California from the Gold Rush through ...