Rosie Clayburn is a descendant of the Yurok Tribe, which had its territory — called O Rew in the Yurok language — ripped from them nearly two centuries ago. "As the natural world became completely ...

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It’s been nearly 200 years since the famous California gold rush in the late 1840s, but mining property is hot once again, at ...

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From its Vaquero roots to a Gold Rush rarity, the 1850 Baldwin $10 Horseman coin galloped through history as a unique icon of ...

The $20 double eagle was authorized after the California Gold Rush brought an abundance of gold supply, Kraljevich said. The last time this specific coin was sold was at a Stack's auction in 1986 ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths ...

The coin was one of many items dating back to days of California Gold Rush and prospectors up for bid at The Stack’s Bowers Galleries Rarities Night Auction in Costa Mesa, California.

Rare Coin Issued After the California Gold Rush Sold at Auction for $1.4 Million LOS ANGELES (AP) — Avid coin collectors jumped at the chance to get their hands on a rare $20 “double eagle ...

However, the massive gold deposits in California inspired Congress to authorize a gold coin that was twice as big as a way to turn the Golden State’s riches into spendable and countable money.