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
He went back to the East some time afterwards, and stayed ten or fifteen years; but he was a real pioneer and "forty-niner" all the same.
From A Summer in a Canyon by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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 Sherwood Anderson
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
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