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
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
His parents, British Jews of Portuguese extraction, were among the original forty-niners who flooded northern California after gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2010
The trees there are not J. hindsii, but Missouri blacks planted by forty-niners.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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