A little over 10 years ago, Melbourne novelist Madeleine Cleary discovered that her great-great-great grandmother, Catherine ...

A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849 ... Using a technique called hydraulic mining, they extracted $170 million in gold between 1860 and 1880. In the process, they devastated the landscape and choked ...

During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people ... The state of California enacted a law in 1860 known as the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians making ...

During the 1860s, at least one out of every six Chinese ... In the early days of the Black Hills gold rush, more than 100 labored as laundrymen in and around Deadwood—a monopoly that earned ...