An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...

On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery ... Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold ...

A forty-niner: a person who traveled to California during the gold rush of 1849 to seek their fortune. A turning point occurred in global history when the precious metal was discovered at Sutter's ...

A gold discovery happened in 1848 at the property of John Sutter that led to the California Gold Rush. Did most Forty Niners strike it rich? Gold was extracted in amounts estimated to exceed $2 ...

California’s early statehood was defined by the gold rush that started in the late 1840s, giving us the name “49ers.” Miners hoping to strike it rich flocked to Northern California from ...

Within this environment, San Francisco emerged as the greatest boom town, its population surging from 600 in 1848 to 25,000 in 1849. As the primary port of entry for seaborne “Argonauts” (people who ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...