USA TODAY on MSN: Experience California's Gold Rush history inside Old Sacramento
MSN: The 5 most charming and scenic Gold Rush towns in California
There's no better region of California to go looking for the crème-de-la-crème of Gold Rush towns than the official Gold Country. Strung along the western side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, it ...
kcra.com: 'This started California': The history behind California's gold rush | California Politics 360
'This started California': The history behind California's gold rush | California Politics 360
WMBF News: North Carolina’s gold discovery predated California rush by 50 years
MIDLAND, N.C. (InvestigateTV) — The California Gold Rush of 1848 triggered a mass migration west, but gold was discovered more than 50 years earlier in North Carolina, 2,000 miles east of California.
There's gold in them thar hills... well, figuratively. The ore that sparked the American West's Gold Rush is mostly long gone, but California is still dotted with tiny towns left over from the ...
TUOLUMNE COUNTY — 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 containment ...