Deep in a canyon in the Sierra Nevada, Washington is a palette of nature. However, the California boomtown might not make it ...

The Silver State is littered with abandoned mining towns and camps that were thriving during the area's silver rush in the late 1800s. Check out Di Stefano's tour of Gold Point, NV, a ghost town ...

a 20-year-old miner from Pennsylvania who lived in the town of Sonora. Miners of all nationalities streamed out of their camps in the woods and mountains. Many headed straight for the gold rush's ...

SBS The Californian gold rush was in decline in the 1850s and had been known as the Old Gold Mountain, which led the Chinese to name the Australian gold rush, New Gold Mountain. This is how the ...