These miners (now dubbed 49ers) arrived with meager ... It wasn't ideal, as Americans in the 1800s generally preferred fluffy ...

Just because we're long past the days of the 49ers and old-time prospectors, don't think mining for gold has been ... the American craze in the early 1800s with the discovery of single nuggets ...

The first wave occurred in the mid-1800s – hence the term 49er – and ... in the creation of the state of California. Today’s miners – according to the article their numbers have doubled ...

said demonstrators this year will also protest the 49ers’ name, which refers to the hundreds of thousands of gold miners who descended on Indigenous land in California in the 1800s, displacing ...

The team, of course, is not alone in casting the old gold miners in a friendly light. Yet the reality of the men behind the legend is not quite so lovable and comic. The original 49ers carried out ...

Those Black 49ers included both free and enslaved ... with rough terrains to avoid clashing with other miners, Brunmeier said. By the late 1800s, Black people worked as paid laborers for mining ...

SANTA CLARA -- The 49ers on Thursday unveiled the first “alternate” uniform in franchise history -- all-black threads with red numerals. The new jerseys resemble what Colin Kaepernick and the ...

According to the team's website, Allen E. Sorrell – a partner alongside team owner Tony Morabito – suggested the name "49ers" after the miners who rushed the West for gold in 1849. The term ...

According to History Colorado, the mines brought droves of people looking for gold, silver and other gems in the 1800s. While the ... sound could’ve come from mining operations in other shafts.

The Klamath Tribe's lawsuit came after a district ranger on the Klamath National Forest in 2004 approved plans by the New 49ers gold mining club and three miners to use dredges to mine for gold.

you could say the mother lode of recreational mining gear is made in Southern California.Gone are the days of the 70-foot sluice box used by the 49ers. Today, backpack-sized equipment can be used ...

MOORESBURG -- A recent discovery at the Mooresburg One-Room School reveals the day-to-day lives of miners more than 100 years ago. While going through items at the school that is now a museum ...