forty-niners
Those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold, which had been discovered there in 1848. Reportedly, there were about eighty thousand of them.
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And the same week there was a company at another theatre there playing the old man's 'forty-niners.'
The Regent | E. Arnold BennettThe forty-niners, and those who came in the early Fifties, were such men as enlist in the first years of a war.
The Life of Bret Harte | Henry Childs MerwinBret Harte has seized upon the name as the theme of tales and ballads of the "forty-niners."
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.It was the same allurement which drew the "forty-niners" to California, and in 1897 the gold-seekers to the Canadian Klondyke.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century | Clarence Henry HaringSailin'-ships, so rotten that their owners were glad to get rid of 'em, were sold to forty-niners at fancy prices.
The Boy With the U.S. Miners | Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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