On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the ...
How the two primary people of the gold discovery in California failed to cash in. On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was discovered on ...
About a decade before silver was discovered in Nevada, the West’s first consequential mining boom occurred on the other side of the Sierra Nevada near a place called Coloma. In 1839, John Sutter ...