Auction officials believe the pair could be an early manufacture of Levi Strauss jeans A pair of ... The jeans were among 270 Gold Rush-era memorabilia that sold for nearly $1m total, according ...

During the gold rush, most miners didn't find fortunes, but the merchants — people selling pans, or garment makers such as Levi Strauss and his copper-rivet blue jeans — did. So far in the ...