Enchanted by its suggestion of swashbuckling adventure, I acquired the map in December 2019. One day in April 2020, I found myself staring at it, lost in the intricacy of the artwork, when ...

So how can you tell you found gold? It’s all in the weight of the pan. Gold is about 18 times heavier than water and as you’re panning, the gold will sink to the bottom of the pan, Fierro said.

In Northern California, prospectors are looking to strike gold after the winter storms, recalling a storied era in state history. By Thomas Fuller Photographs by Jim Wilson ...

Back then, even Southern California, so far from the action, managed to profit from the gold fields up north, from selling ...

The discovery of gold in1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries to form a multi-ethnic society in California.

Aptly nicknamed "the Golden State," California saw its first gold rush some 175 years ago when James Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, noticed some glinting metal in the water where he was ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some 150,000 to roughly 31,000, according to the International Indian Treaty Council.