At 95 minutes, “The Gold Rush” was the longest comedy film to date. It riffs on, of all tragic things, the Donner Party, ...

Pier 58, which was originally called Schwabacher’s Wharf, and then Pier 7, has a past covered in grit, gold-dust, and ...

About a decade before silver was discovered in Nevada, the West’s first consequential mining boom occurred on the other side of the Sierra Nevada.

Jefferson Randolph “Soapy” Smith was shot and killed in a shootout on the Juneau Wharf in Skagway. Soapy was a conman who ...

Once a booming Gold Rush town, this hidden Colorado destination now offers a wealth of outdoor activities, mine tours, and panoramic mountain views.

Canada, 1898. The gold rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they're lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement.

In the heart of Seattle, a national park memorializes the grit of the Klondike gold rush, where the president’s grandfather built his early wealth. The park is now under threat.

ROCHESTER, Feb. 2. -- Western New York seems to have gone gold mad. The intensity and sudden outbreak of the craze are equally notable.