"Western author and historian John Boessenecker has produced an instant classic, with his new book 'Bring Me The Head of ...

The Koyukuk River doesn’t loom large in Gold Rush era histories of Alaska, though not for lack of effort. As would-be prospectors flooded into Alaska and the Yukon following the 1896 Klondike gold ...

FRIDAY MAY 14, 1849 At 4 P.M. weighed anchor & at 4V2 underweigh for San Diego where we arrived soon after noon & 24 hours from Santa Barbara. This is the meanest place of all, not a morsel of fresh ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

In “Fortune’s Frenzy,” Eilene Lyon traces the hardship and misery endured by Henry Jenkins, a stalwart Indiana farmer who, along with thousands of others, journeyed to California in 1851. By W. M.

Robert Hunter Fitzhugh Jr. was a civil engineer in Chicago who caught gold fever in 1897, one of thousands of Americans who abruptly abandoned their lives and scrambled north when word of the Klondike ...

The competitors for the Men's and Women's Iron Survivor Challenges are now in place thanks to WWE Intercontinental Champion ...

It’s a balmy day in Jamestown, in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, and the second-generation miner is ...

PLACERVILLE, Calif. (KMAX) - California’s back-to-back storms have sparked another gold rush. “We do a lot of different, different gold supplies in here,” Albert Fausel said. Albert Fausel is a ...

The first week of NXT Gold Rush is in the books and Jacy Jayne is once again the top woman in NXT. Tatum Paxley's dream of ...