The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma...
107 KB (11,700 words) - 14:02, 4 November 2024
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners...
32 KB (3,618 words) - 15:22, 16 October 2024
Women in the California gold rush, which began in Northern California in 1848, initially included Spanish descendants, or Californios, who already lived...
40 KB (5,370 words) - 02:47, 15 October 2024
The Pike's Peak gold rush (later known as the Colorado gold rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas...
13 KB (1,511 words) - 18:50, 15 October 2024
Gold Rush! (later retitled California: Gold Rush!) is a graphic adventure video game designed by Doug and Ken MacNeill and originally released by Sierra...
12 KB (1,162 words) - 16:22, 20 September 2024
The Witwatersrand Gold Rush was a gold rush that began in 1886 and led to the establishment of Johannesburg, South Africa. It was a part of the Mineral...
16 KB (1,769 words) - 17:14, 5 June 2024
The Georgia Gold Rush was the second significant gold rush in the United States and the first in Georgia, and overshadowed the previous rush in North Carolina...
21 KB (2,541 words) - 19:18, 28 October 2024
dollars' worth of gold in the mountains of California. During the California Gold Rush, gold-seekers known as "Forty-Niners" retrieved this gold, at first using...
15 KB (1,846 words) - 02:52, 14 September 2024
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme...
37 KB (4,541 words) - 15:00, 6 June 2024
The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film also stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp...
28 KB (3,423 words) - 18:15, 8 October 2024