As I wrote last month, the early California gold miners began with placer mining, simply picking
One of the things I found in going through my father’s papers was some genealogies
Last year I recounted the story of James Marshall finding a gold nugget at Sutter’s
It wasn’t until December 1848 that President James Polk acknowledged that gold had been found
I’ve been fixated recently on what happened in 1964—fifty years ago—as 2014 winds to an
The short answer to why usually I ask questions at the end of my posts
My Gold Rush posts this year have traced the spread of the news, from the
As soon as I heard about it, I wanted to see the Plains Indians special
I had another novel in mind for my last haunting book review this month, but
Throughout 1848, fortune-seekers streamed into California, even though the U.S. government had not yet acknowledged