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forty-niners

  1. Those who flocked to California in 1849 in search of gold, which had been discovered there in 1848. Reportedly, there were about eighty thousand of them.


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And the same week there was a company at another theatre there playing the old man's 'Forty-Niners.'

The Forty-Niners, and those who came in the early Fifties, were such men as enlist in the first years of a war.

Bret Harte has seized upon the name as the theme of tales and ballads of the "Forty-niners."

It was the same allurement which drew the "forty-niners" to California, and in 1897 the gold-seekers to the Canadian Klondyke.

Sailin'-ships, so rotten that their owners were glad to get rid of 'em, were sold to forty-niners at fancy prices.

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