Tucked away in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills lies a place where time stands still and the 1850s come alive. Columbia ...
From Clint Eastwood's favorite train to historic buildings to taverns, Jamestown, California, is an excellent travel ...
A 24-year-old Chinese woman was indicted for allegedly stealing nearly $2 million worth of gold nuggets from Paris' National ...
RENO, Nev. (AP) – Tiny pieces of California Gold Rush history fetched big bucks at a Reno auction of Western Americana. The Jack Totheroh Collection of some 200 gold coins privately made in San ...
A woman has been charged after allegedly being involved in another audacious museum theft in Paris. The Chinese-born suspect ...
Victor was once so big the town scored a New York Times headline in 1899. Unfortunately, it was to report bad news: “Fire in a Colorado Town: Business Section of Victor, Near Cripple Creek, Destroyed ...
"The California Gold Rush: Getting there, Mining, Contemporary stories and accounts, Private coiners and assayers, San Francisco Mint -- Treasure of the S.S. Central America: Saga at sea of the ...
Once upon a time, in 1848, a man could walk into the wilderness on the brink of poverty and emerge, caked in mud, dust and days-old sweat, a multimillionaire. The discovery of gold in California in ...