Did the forty-niners find gold? Northern California's American River was the site of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848. mostly men from the east, came from Europe, China, ...
The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those still digging for riches in the California soil. When word of the gold first trickled 130 miles south to the port of ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, a discovery that ...