than one percent—actually worked as miners. Many were married to miners; however, their lives as partners on the gold fields were still hard and often lonely...

ore prior to washing out gold California gold miners with long tom, c. 1850–1852 Mining on the American River near Sacramento, c. 1852 River mining, North...

Old Sacramento State Historic Park occupies around one third of the property within the Old Sacramento Historic District of Sacramento, California. The...

Steamboats traveled up and down the Sacramento River carrying miners from San Francisco to the gold fields. As the miners expanded their diggings deeper into...

League expansion franchise for 1993. The new team was named the Sacramento Gold Miners; Stephenson and several Surge players were retained in the change...

the Sacramento Surge of the WLAF, the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League and the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football...

back to the mid-19th century, Sacramento is home to the largest concentration of buildings dating back to the California Gold Rush era in the United States...

Pictures. A new gold strike in California ten years after the American Civil War triggers a bitter feud between farmers and miners using hydraulic mining...

Bodie's gold: tall tales and true history from a California mining town. Reno: University of Nevada Press. ISBN 0874175119. OCLC 50803672. "Miners Union...

seat of Sacramento County. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers in Northern California's Sacramento Valley, Sacramento's 2020...

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...

CFL admitted three more United States-based teams, to add to the Sacramento Gold Miners, who were introduced in 1993. The Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport...

Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in downtown Sacramento. Via the Sacramento River, it is part of the San Francisco Bay watershed...

association with the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush, and the formation of the city of Sacramento, surrounding the fort. It is notable for its proximity...

more flocked in, hoping to find a missed spot. The gold the miners had found was placer gold, loose gold pieces that were mixed in with the rocks and soil...

known for its California Gold Rush history and is registered as a California Historical Landmark. Auburn is part of the Sacramento metropolitan area. Archaeological...

Wars. In 1849, he moved to California during the California Gold Rush. He died in Sacramento, most likely of cholera, in October 1850. William Stephen Hamilton...

foothills, where miners blasted gravel hillsides with high-pressure jets of water—a process called hydraulic mining. After the miners extracted gold in long wooden...

Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from Sacramento and 88 miles (142 km) west of Reno. Grass Valley...

and Gold Hill now stand. As the miners worked their way up the stream, they founded the town of Johntown on a plateau. In 1857, the Johntown miners found...

the vicinity of Routier Station. As the miners left Sacramento traveling to the foothills in search of gold, way stations grew up along the first dirt...

other smaller steamboats hauled miners from San Francisco, California up the Sacramento River to Stockton, Sacramento. Marysville, California etc. This...

little gold left in streams. Miners began to discover gold in old riverbeds and on mountainsides high above the streams. In 1851 three miners headed northeast...

gold, and a new railroad. The Natoma Water Company was formed in 1851 by local miners to construct a 20-mile ditch that would supply water for miners...

officially the 36th Canadian Football League season. On February 23, the Sacramento Gold Miners were announced as the CFL's ninth franchise, during the league's...

up as the terminus of the Gold Line of Sacramento Regional Transit District's light rail service in 2005. A few former gold-rush era towns are located...

1993 season. The CFL accepted, and admitted the Riders and the Sacramento Surge/Gold Miners to the CFL. The Riders were to change names to the San Antonio...

bought out.: 15, 28 : 87  As word spread that hard rock gold had been found in California, miners from the tin and copper mines of Cornwall, England, arrived...

describing is dead. Spider Conway, one of the miners and Coy's former partner, discovers a large gold nugget in the dry creek bed and rides into town...

 21. ISBN 1-58703-163-9.. Accessed July 26, 2020. "Gold Rush Profile: Peter Burnett". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved...