Inside Look is a Merced Sun-Star series where we take readers behind the scenes at restaurants, new businesses, local landmarks and news stories. Once the center for justice and politics in the ...

In this lesson, students learn about the California Gold Rush of 1849 through miners’ letters and art/photos, then research the role of the “invisibles”—minority groups and immigrants ...

Skeptical editors downplayed the notion, despite letters from California like the ... and managing farms. A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, the non-native population of California had grown to ...

Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park unit in Pioneer Square is one of 34 national park office leases the administration plans to shutter, advocates said.