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 ...

During the gold rush, most miners didn't find fortunes ... with roughly 300,000 forty-niners flocking here to make their fortune from the U.S. and abroad. California became a state by 1850 ...

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 ...

The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 is one of the defining moments in California history, with roughly 300,000 forty-niners flocking here to make their fortune from the U.S. and abroad.