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forty-niners

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forty-niners
participants in California gold rush of 1849. [Am. Hist.: LLEI, I: 270]
See : Treasure


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The site, once a shipyard, is reclaimed land incorporating hulks of ships abandoned by the Forty-niners rushing inland for gold.
Freeman, 58, died Tuesday at his Pearblossom home, where he had nearly completed a book about the trunk and the back-country treks that led to it - including two furtive excursions across Nevada's nuclear test range - tracing the route of the lost forty-niners who were the first whites to stumble into Death Valley.
Upon returning home and kissing his cow, Jasper is quite happy to wave good luck to the continuing stream of westward-bound forty-niners.
 
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