An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at ... Mexico, Chile, Peru and China headed for California in the summer and fall of 1848, before Americans on the East ...

The Californian gold rush was in decline in the 1850s and had been known as the Old Gold Mountain, which led the Chinese to name the Australian gold rush, New Gold Mountain. This is how the series ...

In the villages of southern China, people called America "Gold Mountain," a place to find one's fortune. The California gold rush of 1849 had triggered America's earliest wave of Chinese ...

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction ... The law led many Chinese mining immigrants to head south to San Francisco where they established America ...

"The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian. Most people did not survive it," Lim said. Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent ...

by ship from China. "Silver & Gold: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush," organized by the Oakland Museum of California, brings together 150 daguerreotypes and ambrotypes from that wild time.

Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about them promoted by local politicians, and their role ...

Coloma, California Begin at the epicenter of the California Gold Rush, where James Marshall first glimpsed gold in the South Fork of the American River, starting the California Gold Rush of 1849.

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. Get Rich Quick The discovery ... Mexico, Chile, Peru and China headed for California in the summer and fall of 1848, before Americans on the ...