On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the ...
On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that sparked the ...
How the two primary people of the gold discovery in California failed to cash in.
Don’t miss Gold Discovery Day at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park on Saturday, Jan. 24, a yearly celebration that ...
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 ...
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