Seeking gold in California river bottom, Mid 1850s, Harper's Weekly magazine ... and the crumbling of hillsides soon echoed through the mining district, as hundreds of gallons of water fired ...

California poppies are blooming along Empire Grade near the West Entrance to UC Santa Cruz. Empire Grade, which begins at ...

By the mid-20th century the people who still resided in the Copper Country truly demonstrated a rare quality of resilience ...