Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall found a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in Northern California, a discovery that sparked the ...

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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 near a place called Coloma. In 1839, John Sutter ...

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