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

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

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

Dodson led him to press forward with the first, and he was a "forty-niner," that pride of the old Californians.

From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Field, Stephen Johnson