but news didn't spread worldwide until 1849. That year, thousands of people came to California in search of gold. These gold-seekers were known as the "forty-niners." A hundred years after the ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

You might not know it, but the San Francisco 49ers were the first of the four major ... and direct tribute to the famous gold rush of 1849. It was a time when countless prospectors made their ...