These miner’s work pants with a button fly, recovered from the 1857 sinking of the S.S. Central America, are the oldest known California Gold Rush-era jeans of their kind and may have been made by or ...

Auction officials believe the pair could be an early manufacture of Levi Strauss jeans A pair of men's work pants that auction officials believe could be the world's oldest pair of jeans have sold for ...

CHARLESTON, S.C., April 30 (Reuters) - A deep-ocean exploration company is seeking to recover a lucrative haul of gold aboard the shipwreck of the SS Central America, nearly 160 years after it sank ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A deep-ocean exploration company in Florida says it has recovered nearly 1,000 ounces of gold, worth $1.3 million at current gold prices, on a reconnaissance dive to an historic ...

Introduction -- Chapter 1. A new generation -- Chapter 2. The careening of the ship -- Chapter 3. The sea would rise again -- Chapter 4. Sail ho! -- Chapter 5. The El Dorado -- Chapter 6. The steamer ...