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 ...

California’s Gold Rush of 1848 is often depicted as a time of adventure, opportunity, and transformation. Picture it: waves ...

Polk, at the end of a year of fantastical rumors of riches in the Sierra Nevada, ignited the California Gold Rush with his State of the Union address on this day in history, Dec. 5, 1848.

In others, they took the Panama or Cape Horn routes. As they thronged to the Sierra Nevada ... Those who discovered gold in California in 1848 set off a frenzied Gold Rush in the state the following ...

Something about the heavy, shiny metal has always attracted mankind. From our earliest history, the lure and acquisition of ...

In 1830, gold was found in the Southern Appalachians and the Georgia gold rush began. Unfortunately ... became known as "the trail of tears." In 1848, gold was discovered in California.

"It's like the gold rush of 1848. A lot of people didn't know if there was gold in the ground, but Levi's made a business selling jeans and Wells Fargo made a banking business," Moelis said at the ...