Check out the best photos from the 49ers Gold Rush performance with over 500 young cheerleaders taking the field in the team's preseason. Look back at some of the best San Francisco 49ers Gold ...

Sourdough was drafted to the 49ers as the team's official mascot! Sourdough Sam is a gold miner that loves to have fun, and pumps up the 49er faithful at every home game. Known for his love of ...

But that's only one part of the sta gold rush story ... Some depicted 49ers carrying pistols and rifles, even carrying knives while wielding mining tools. About 300,000 heavily-armed settlers ...

Thanks to the gold rush, the population of California ... After Clementine was retired, the 49ers tried a variety of prospector and miner characters based on their early logo.

The team’s name is a nod to history. The California Gold Rush began in 1848, but it took a year for the word to get out, and so by the time 1849 rolled around, thousands of fortune hunters had ...