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
The party consisted of Yamanatz, Jack and Chiquita, and an old "forty-niner" who was asked to join them under the promise of good wages and the usual "interest" in any claims which might be "staked."
From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill
Was it the spirit of some poor forty-niner come back again?
From The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Fisher, Frederick Vining
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 Burgess, John William
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