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 Gray, Mabel Thayer

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

Stuart was a "forty-niner," who had crossed the continent in a prairie-schooner as a boy and had drifted into Virginia City in the days of its hot youth.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann