How the two primary people of the gold discovery in California failed to cash in.

On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the ...

History buffs will love discovering this string of Gold Rush-era towns along Highway 49, a ribbon that connects this famous ...

'Gold’s all around' ...

Chinese Camp, California saw some of its famed structures burn. A spate of lighting strikes this week ignited a series of wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, including one that damaged multiple ...

Jan. 24, 1848, marked the start of the famous California Gold Rush.

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. (AP) — One of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California on Wednesday scorched homes in a Gold Rush town settled in the 1850s by thousands of Chinese miners who had ...

This 382-acre gentleman’s ranch in the Sierra Nevada foothills is in the heart of what was once California Gold Rush Country, and artifacts from that era, which began in 1849, have been found on the ...

TUOLUMNE COUNTY, Calif. (AP) — A quick-moving wildfire burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp and the blaze grew without ...