It just so happens it was the area where they found the gold at Sutter's Mill along the American River ... California before the Spanish and certainly before the coming of the Gold Rush.

An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush. In 1852 the take for the year was $80 million ($1.9 billion in 2005 dollars). This map shows some of the ...

California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.

Deep in a canyon in the Sierra Nevada, Washington is a palette of nature. However, the California boomtown might not make it ...

A 117-acre ranch in Northern California’s Gold Rush country — available off market for $7.2 million — has a gold-bearing river running through it and a cannabis farm, according to Christie’s ...

Museums, ghost towns, old mining sites... From the mountains of California to the deserts of Nevada, the American West is full of historic sites dating from the feverish era of the Gold Rush.

Once established, the trees did well largely due to the fertile soil which is the result of the site being part of the flood plain of the American River. Alumni Grove was ... of years in this area ...

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush ... to California to hunt for gold. This set the stage for the "violence of genocide," said Benjamin Madley, an Associated Professor of Native ...