A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

The Ghana Armed Forces said about 60 illegal miners, armed with among others things "pump action guns", had forced their way ...

As for California's native people, one hundred and twenty thousand Native Americans died of disease, starvation and homicide during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual ...

[Warning: The below contains spoilers for Gold Rush Season 15, Episode 11.] The January 17 episode of Gold Rush marked a ...

Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from ...

Forty of the dead were found the first day - my brother ... of currency in the booming town of Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 1900s. (Courtesy of the National Archives ...