The arrival of miners and sourdough will be celebrated on Sunday when the San Francisco 49ers challenge the Kansas ... same mother dough cultivated from a gold miner’s sourdough starter." ...

Check out the best photos from the 49ers Gold Rush performance with over 500 young cheerleaders taking the field in the team's preseason. Look back at some of the best San Francisco 49ers Gold ...

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story ... Some depicted 49ers carrying pistols and rifles, even carrying knives while wielding mining tools. About 300,000 heavily-armed settlers ...

Thanks to the gold rush, the population of California ... After Clementine was retired, the 49ers tried a variety of prospector and miner characters based on their early logo.

Wagons moved at a pace of about two miles an hour and the trail was crowded with other 49ers ... in the gold rush economy. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp, who wrote about the mining camps ...