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
"Hard luck," sympathized the old man, "coming near to being a forty-niner and missing it."
From The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks by Gray, Mabel Thayer
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
Lem McCarthy, the father of the family, had inherited it from a brother, a gold miner, a forty-niner, a sport owning fast horses, who planned to breed race horses on the Iowa land.
From Windy McPherson's Son by Anderson, Sherwood
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