More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.

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 ...

In August 1852, the Alta California exposed a brewing ... "petty despot" had sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.

Thousands of people from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Oregon, Mexico, Chile, Peru and China headed for California ... the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found ...

Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told from a Western perspective. The SBS drama series New Gold Mountain flips the script by shining a ...