The 49ers' name also comes from a significant year in history: 1849, the peak year of the California Gold Rush. Real reason Kansas ... from the Chiefs turned the game around.

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 ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

Borthwick, an Englishman searching for his fortune in the Gold Rush, came to California in 1851 ... PD On October 18, 1849, opening night at the Eagle Theatre in Sacramento, the wind howled ...