Pilarcitos Lake was San Francisco's first major reservoir, quenching the thirst of a booming city following the Gold Rush. It ...

From its dramatic opening, Krist’s book backtracks to chart San Francisco’s astonishing growth, from a rough, polyglot outpost of prospectors attracted by the 1849 Gold Rush to a mature ...

Originally, San Francisco sourdough was not good. Scrounged together by miners during the Gold Rush of 1849, it only existed because it was easy to make from readily-available ingredients.

Welcome to San Francisco. While I am probably a ... the historic landing spot for the gold rush pioneers of 1849. Then, they sailed here on clippers and abandoned the ships in search of golden ...

Gap’s latest slogan is a mere three words, as simple and tactile as its new wide-legged denim: “Feels Like Gap.” At the 56-year-old clothing empire’s San Francisco headquarters, the words are ...

The US took over a bankrupt French project, backed an independence movement, and paid a $25 million ransom to get the marvel ...

While out walking or working on irrigation, the ranch owners have found remnants from the Gold Rush when the property ... from Louis Taussig and Co. of San Francisco., which no longer exists.

Elitch Long was born in 1856 in Philadelphia and at the age of 16, she eloped with John Elitch Jr. They moved to San Francisco and ... west during the Colorado Gold Rush. She was born a slave ...

titled San Francisco, 1849, captures a historical maritime scene of Yerba Buena Cove during the Gold Rush era. Stobart’s masterful attention to detail and atmospheric lighting bring to life the ...

Shifting sands and drifting dunes plagued early explorers and perplexed travellers arriving in the midst of the Gold Rush ... his 1849 arrival to the city. “When one looks back and recalls the ...