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

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

Lem had come out of the back streets of an eastern city, bringing his brood of tall, silent, savage boys to live upon the land and, like the forty-niner, to be a sport.

From Windy McPherson's Son by Anderson, Sherwood

A forty-niner's a forty-niner, and a man that came in fifty—well, he might as well have come in sixty or seventy, or even in the twentieth century.

From The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks by Gray, Mabel Thayer