"The California gold rush lasted only seven years, but it affected people around the world. Track the important events and turning points that made the discover

In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall discovered that there was gold in the riverbeds of the Sacramento Valley. Gold fever quickly spread across the country

Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the

Provides a chronological overview of the gold rush, discussing what it was like to live and work in the mining towns, how it changed people's lives, and what ha

When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about