Few prospectors made it rich during the Klondike Gold Rush. By the time most gold-seekers ... Men outnumbered women 25 to one. Prostitution was tolerated and one miner said, "even an angel couldnt ...

Some American women, among them Luzena Wilson ... starvation and homicide during the gold rush. As the surface gold disappeared, individual miners found their dreams of cashing in on the gold ...

Unearth extraordinary stories of people who came to this country to try – but mostly fail – to make their fortune finding gold. What did people eat, wear, do for fun, sing, read, paint and cry ...

Stories about Chinese miners during Australia’s famous gold rush of the 1850s are often told ... Mountain begins with the discovery of a white woman’s body outside a camp for Chinese miners.