These two were as mad with greed at the thought of the silver mine in the mountains as ever were forty-niners in the golden days of California, or those more recent ignoble martyrs who strewed their bones along the icy trails of the Klondike.

Not that Jimville is old, but it has an atmosphere favorable to the type of a half century back, if not "forty-niners," of that breed.

These were the "forty-niners.

The Californians make a Free-State Constitution.%When Taylor heard that gold hunters were hurrying to California from all parts of the world, he was very anxious to have some permanent government in California; and encouraged by him the pioneers, the "forty-niners," made a free-state constitution in 1849 and applied for admission into the Union.

"Forty-niners".

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

Yerba Buena and the reminiscences of a forty-niner.

Yerba Buena and the Reminiscences of a Forty-Niner The Plaza and its Echoes "Be careful," I warned, "you'll get your feet wet.

I'm a forty-niner."

It's the forty-niner that counts in this community."

"Here on the corner of Kearny," continued the Forty-niner, "was an old adobe building with a red-tiled roof and a veranda around it.

"My grandfather was a near-forty-niner," I reminded him.

And then, they saythe best dinner" "That's a tradition of the Forty-niners" "I have no particular reason for staying down there, even if I keep the room.

R63353, 13Jun50, Sadie Race Hoyt (NK) WHY THE FORTY-NINER NEVER SAVED HIS FIRST NUGGET, by Harry C. Peterson. (In the Oakland tribune, May 13, 1923) © 13May23, A670037.

THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER; journal of a voyage from Newburyport to San Francisco on the Brig.

SEE The log of a Forty-Niner.

Forty-niners: the chronicle of the California Trail.

Forty-niners: the chronicle of the California Trail.

R63353, 13Jun50, Sadie Race Hoyt (NK) WHY THE FORTY-NINER NEVER SAVED HIS FIRST NUGGET, by Harry C. Peterson. (In the Oakland tribune, May 13, 1923) © 13May23, A670037.

SEE The log of a Forty-Niner.

THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER; journal of a voyage from Newburyport to San Francisco on the Brig.

Forty-niners: the chronicle of the California Trail.

Forty-niners: the chronicle of the California Trail.

These first comers were called the Forty-Niners, because most of them came in the year 1849.

Many of the Forty-Niners were Southerners.