The Modern Gold Rush In the late 1840s and early 1850s you would be hard pressed to find anyone that didn’t have a friend or family member that had packed up and moved west to California in search of gold. And though California is still a golden hot-spot in the United States, it is no […]
Gold Panning In The United States American history is full of prospectors who moved out west to strike it rich with nothing more than a nice river and a pan to sift through the sand. You can also find the legends of thousands of men and women who really did make a mint by panning […]