In 1998, the Lively Arts History Association, in cooperation with the California Council for the Humanities and with the support of the LA County Cultural Affairs Department staged a Gold Rush living history program at the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles.

The program consisted of over 50 costumed participants, portraying the lives of men and women in the gold fields of California in the 1850s.

We did it again in 2000, for the Huntington Library and Museum. Click here for photographs from those two programs.