This California town, known as the gateway to Yosemite, offers more than just a place to stay, with outdoor adventures, local ...

Many headed straight for the gold rush's most ubiquitous forms of entertainment: drinking and gambling. In the mining towns, a plank table and some canvas for shade became a rowdy gambling saloon.

How Sierra Nevada's gold rush towns are reinventing themselves How Sierra Nevada's gold rush towns are reinventing themselves Gold is a toxic lure in the world’s highest settlement Gold is a tox ...

One man's trash is an archaeologist's treasure — in other words, a lot can be discerned about a population’s habits and ways of living from what people choose to throw ...

Ivey drove his RV to this lab, run by the state's Archaeological Research Center, to participate in the excavation of a ...

can be had on a family trip to the gold mining towns across the western U.S. For a Gold Rush-inspired trip to remember, grab the kids, hit the road and head to these glimmering spots, found ...

"This town, as beautiful as it once was ... But the industry on which the village depends is also blamed for its demise. A gold rush, with prices more than tripling in the past decade, has ...

The California gold rush of 1849 had triggered America's earliest ... The fortunes of Deadwood's Chinatown grew along with the town. Locals soon took to calling the Black Hills "the richest ...

Towns with names like Hangtown ... starvation and homicide during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of cashing in on the gold rush growing ...