The California Gold Rush
“Seeing the elephant” in California.
Gold Rush!
Bring yourself up to speed on the Gold Rush, including the minorities involved.
California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California, 1849-1900
40,000 written pages and more than 3,000 illustrations provide accounts of California history from the Gold Rush to the end of the 19th century.
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869
Get up close-and-personal with western migrants. Explore personal accounts of westward treks from the perspective of 45 men and four women.
Online Archive of California
Explore California from Japanese American internment or the Free Speech Movement to oral histories.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Peruse 11 exhibits, from the Gold Rush of 1849 to Japanese American internment during WWII.