forty-niner
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Kuchan, who’s based in Del Mar, said it’s outside his normal listing area, but he’s leaning into the forty-niner history and the gold rush potential to market the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
The late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which he regarded as a worthless joke.
From Time Magazine Archive
You bet there were," agreed the forty-niner, "and the entire history of San Francisco was made around this Plaza.
From The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks by Mabel Thayer Gray
Lem had come out of the back streets of an eastern city, bringing his brood of tall, silent, savage boys to live upon the land and, like the forty-niner, to be a sport.
From Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson
Dr. Robinson was a prominent "forty-niner," and the leader of the California squatters in the war against the Sutter land claims.
From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
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