Many Black Americans garnered wealth during the gold rush by opening up shops and mining for gold. Even though California was deemed a free state, however, many regions tolerated slavery.

Notes "The California Gold Rush: Getting there, Mining, Contemporary stories and accounts, Private coiners and assayers, San Francisco Mint -- Treasure of the S.S. Central America: Saga at sea of the ...

Off Highway 50 on the way to Tahoe, Gold Bug Mine, inside Gold Bug Park, is the kind of place you want to visit even if you don’t care much about gold rush history. It’s a beautiful park ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — There was the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the Tucson Gold Rush of the late 1880s. Prospectors by the thousands descended on the Santa Catalina Mountains ...

COLOMA, Calif. — California's Gold Rush history comes to life in El Dorado County at the annual Coloma Gold Rush Live event. The Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park hosts the event each ...