Over 100,000 Americans left farms and factories to search for gold in the faraway Yukon, most without knowing how to survive in the alien wilderness.
In 1865, the riverboat hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank on the way to goldfields in Montana. Its hull, discovered in a Nebraska cornfield, gave up over 200,000 artifacts.
Save for the Civil War, what occurred after a carpenter glimpsed a flash of yellow 150 years ago in Northern California was the biggest story of the 19th century. Richard Reinhard examines what we think we know (and don’t) about the people who made it happen.
What human nature and the California gold rush tell us about crime in the inner city
Americans have been doing just that since the days of the California gold rush—and we’re still not full
No city has more energetically obliterated the remnants of its past. And yet no city has a greater sense of its history.
Granddaddy of all desert mining discoveries was the Comstock Lode, which sent the Far West on a silver stampede to Nevada’s Washoe country a century ago.