A group of local veterans has solved the 174-year-old mystery about what lies in the grave with the bone-chilling epitaph in ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by ... was building near Coloma. When news of gold reached San Francisco first ...

Many believed it was that of an infant who had died in the wilderness along the California-Oregon pack trail during the Gold Rush. Regardless of the mystery ... and crossed the Isthmus of Panama by ...

Yolo County was one of the first established counties when it was chartered in 1850, shortly after California ... murder victims and other Gold Rush characters. In fact, Ghost Tours of these ...

Because of their privileged status as a transnational religious institution and their allegiance to the pope, the Jesuits enjoyed considerable autonomy from both the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.

Three businessmen founders, brothers John and Henry Cooke, and Walter Powell, declared their newspaper was to be ... The explosion in gold-rush immigration – most of it through Melbourne ...

Richard Wilton Sr., born in England in 1795, was brought to America at the age of two or three. He served as a private in ...

Mark Oliver's art, book and film brings a hidden history to life to tell the story of African Americans in northern ...

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

In 1850 the California legislature passed an Act ... In the early days of the Gold Rush, from the very beginning, frustrated Anglo American miners banded together to form groups of essentially ...

Many Fairbanks residents who came during the gold rush retired in the Lower 48 but their hearts remained in the Golden Heart ...