How Sierra Nevada's gold rush towns are reinventing themselves How Sierra Nevada's gold rush towns are reinventing themselves Gold is a toxic lure in the world’s highest settlement Gold is a tox ...

Among Placerville’s many gold rush-era curiosities are rumors of tunnels ... like in Calico Ghost Town and in the pie-filled town of Julian, but I wasn’t expecting what I found at the Gold ...

The welcome center, built in the image of a notable general's cottage, includes a small museum of artifacts and photos from Cahawba ... Live fast, die young. This Gold Rush town did just that.

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by ... Sam Brannan marched through town waving a vial of the precious metal ...