Travel back to the Gold Rush ... Gold Discovery Museum, and kids can give gold-panning a try. Follow leafy trails along the river to find a shady picnic spot. The most popular whitewater-rafting ...

Bering Sea Gold is one of the Discovery Channel's more underrated shows, combining the thrills of Gold Rush with the dangers ...

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...

24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change ... Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of ...