A triceratop’s nasal horn, fossilized horse skull, and a 10-pound golden nugget uncovered by a couple using a metal detector ...

Jacob Shinn’s optimism was rewarded when he hit something hard while digging on April 9, 1896. The big “rock” — later ...

Shinn struck gold almost 100 years after the first big nugget was found on John Reed’s land in 1799. No gold discoveries had been documented in the United States before that. The site became ...