Something about the heavy, shiny metal has always attracted mankind. From our earliest history, the lure and acquisition of ...

From the 1860s to 1956, its 73 miles of tunnels, an hour north of where the discovery of gold kicked off the historic rush of Forty-Niners, bustled on and off with rickety mine cars and workers in ...

Check out the best photos from the 49ers Gold Rush performance with over 500 young cheerleaders taking the field in the team's preseason. Look back at some of the best San Francisco 49ers Gold ...

Check out the best photos from the 49ers Gold Rush performance with over 500 young cheerleaders taking the field in the team's preseason. Look back at some of the best San Francisco 49ers Gold ...

Gold is not vital to human existence ... buried in what they called the "flesh of the gods") to the forty-niners (whose mad rush for the mother lode built the American West) to the financiers ...

For example, during the Gold Rush "Oh! Susanna" became a kind of theme song for the Forty-niners, who improvised countless new lyrics for the jaunty tune as they made their way to California.

Fernandez compared the drive to get to Mars to the gold rush in the first half of the 19th century. "In the forty-niners gold rush, the ones that made money sold blue jeans and pickaxes," he said.

O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and ...

Ric Burns wrote, directed and co-produced the film The Donner Party. He describes why the story of the Donner party has had such a lasting resonance, and how it fits into America’s grand ...

But cleaning the waterways enough for people to rely on them for food “could be well past any of our lifetimes, to allow natural processes to cover up the sins that we did during the Gold Rush ...