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After dozens of miners perished in Nevada’s Gold Hill shafts, rumors of foul play engulfed superintendent John P. Jones.

Chinese immigrants first arrived in San Francisco in 1848. By the end of the 1850s, they made up one-fifth of the population in the Southern Mines.

Maine native Henry Mighels, 29, like many other soldiers in the Civil War, dreamt of the day he might see his love, 16-year-old Nellie Verrill, again and shared his thoughts with her through letters. Their exchanges in written form against the backdrop of the war and Reconstruction captured private thoughts, sentiments and flirtations of a man, constantly teasing himself for seizing “stupid” or harmless behaviors missing his loved one back home. In March 1863, from the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the 9th Corps of rapidly developing rural town Newport News, Va., Mighels asked...

Greed, murder and eyeless goldfish: This is one of Tahoe's oldest myths FacebookTwitterEmail A photograph of Lake Tahoe from 1903.Universal History Archive/Getty In 1910, a scandalous story of greed and murder in Lake Tahoe was published in multiple newspapers across the country. The article looked back 20 years prior, when three miners in Virginia City discovered a corpse at the bottom of a deep mining shaft, built during the Comstock Lode. According to the writer, the body — unrecognizable — came from a hole at the bottom of Lake Tahoe. There was just one problem — the story wasn’t ...