More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

The gold rush of 1848 brought still more devastation. Violence, disease and loss overwhelmed the tribes. By 1870, an estimated 30,000 native people remained in the state of California, most on ...

They perpetrated government-supported violence, denied Natives equal ... That is the story of the California Gold Rush. But ...

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story ... heavily-armed settlers descended to California to hunt for gold. This set the stage for the "violence of genocide," said Benjamin Madley ...

we came to know that the 1849 California gold rush was a time in history when the indigenous peoples of California endured subjugation, violence and threats of genocide,” president Jane Close ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and by the end of the decade it was over. But not its impact: The Gold Rush may ...

In August 1852, the Alta California exposed a brewing court ... sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.

Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.

Stockton's very history is indelibly tied to the Gold Rush. One hundred and seventy-seven years later, California continues to lead the U.S. in gold production and discovery. The spirit of the ...

“It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall later would say. News of the riches would soon spread beyond across the United States, kick-starting a wave of mass migration to ...