Treasures recovered from a shipwreck that's been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean since 1857 are on tour before going up ...

More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, fueling Stockton's rapid growth, many are still digging for riches all over California.

A historic 14,000-acre Northern California ranch established around the time of the Gold Rush has hit the real ... Caraccio is a video producer for The Sacramento Bee who was born and raised ...

On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the early prospectors.

Sacramento had no levee system and was prone ... Many headed straight for the gold rush's most ubiquitous forms of entertainment: drinking and gambling. In the mining towns, a plank table and ...

In the rapidly growing city of Sacramento, the Wilsons sold their ... Chile and China -- to make money in the gold rush economy. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp, who wrote about the mining camps ...

Supply stores, saloons, gambling businesses and laundries opened in make-shift towns all around the Sacramento River ... the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction.