Before the Discovery of Gold After two years ... starvation and homicide during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of cashing in on the gold ...

even way before the Gold Rush. It just so happens it was the area where they found the gold at Sutter's Mill along the American River. And this gold strike brought thousands of people from every ...

Some 150 years after the gold rush, miners are back in the New Zealand town of Reefton, betting the gold-laden “reefs” of ...

The value of gold has nearly doubled in the past five years, crossing the $3,000-an-ounce threshold for the first time ever ...

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story. Historians tell Insider the era touted for discovery and expansion is actually responsible for one of the bloodies periods in US history - a ...