Today, you can relive the region's glory days by riding into town in a stagecoach, hearing the ringing of a blacksmith's ...

The town developed in the 1800s in the heart of the Gold Rush era. Also a draw is its proximity to hundreds of miles of trails and natural beauty in Tahoe National Forest and the South Yuba and ...

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 ...

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 ...

As gold rush dreamers flocked to Alaska, some settled in Fairbanks, but others found the area surrounding the confluence of the Tanana and Chena rivers more suitable. Thus, the simply named town ...

Discover some of Colorado’s local gold mining towns. I dive in deep to explore the reason why people flock to these mining areas for a wide variety of reasons. Local counties include Boulder, Gilpin, ...

Towns like Coolgardie, population 850, are in the midst of a modern gold rush as investors and entrepreneurs scramble for a piece of the action.

In a small town in Paraguay, a showdown is brewing between traditional producers of yerba mate, a bitter herbal tea popular across South America, and miners of a shinier treasure: gold. A rush for ...

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 ...

This historical significance of gold was exemplified during the California Gold Rush, which began in 1848 at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California, when James W. Marshall discovered gold while ...