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 ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, Indigenous people ... maps and historic photographs asks students to examine the materials and answer ...

California, founded on a lust for gold, has a new yellow metal rush in the Mojave desert. In the Mojave town of Johannesburg, 140 miles north of Los Angeles, a stampede for gold has sparked a real ...