forty-niners
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The discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848 is one of the defining moments in California history, with roughly 300,000 forty-niners flocking here to make their fortune from the U.S. and abroad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
They built a reputation for coffee and good fish among the newly arriving forty-niners, and in 1852 they relocated to the New World Market, then San Francisco’s central produce market, on Commercial Street.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Several forty-niners glimpsed precious metal as they dragged themselves over the mountains.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2016
The forty-niners, as they came to be called, and their immediate successors, were rich and poor, old and young.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 2, 2015
There were none of those nuggets which gleamed through the mud of the dollies at Ballarat, or recompensed the forty-niners in California for all their travels and their toils.
From The Great Boer War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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