Forty-Niners

The Forty-Niners is a prequel to writer Alan Moore’s Top 10 comic series.

TOP 10: THE FORTY-NINERS America's Best Comics, 2005

The Forty-Niners is a prequel to writer Alan Moore’s Top 10 comic series.

Archive 2006-08-01

It needs another Pat Brown to convince Californians and the rest of the world that the Dream of the Forty-Niners - like the more recent dream realized by the San Francisco Giants - is not dead.

Richard H. Smith: THE LAST HURRAH OF JERRY BROWN

There was little time to ponder the question: Tens of thousands of Forty-Niners were demanding California's immediate admission to the Union as a free state, threatening to overturn the carefully nurtured balance between free and slave states.

Tough Job, Wrong Man

You can say now that ahead of the Forty-Niners stretched more than two thousand miles of empty prairie and forest and mountain and great rivers-but we didn't know that, in so many words.

Isabelle

(See Marcy and the Gold-Seekers, by Grant Fore-man, 1931, an excellent work containing extracts from Marcy's report and writings, and from the letters of Forty-Niners.) [p. 75] 20.

Isabelle

From the earliest settlers who braved months of travel across mountains and deserts, to the Forty-Niners who came here to make their fortunes, from the Dust Bowl refugees who forged west to rebuild their lives, to those who continue to come here today -- from all over the world -- in pursuit of a dream.

Antonio Villaraigosa: Prop 8 Wasn't Just Unconstitutional, it was Un-Californian

His earlier mention of "Oh Susannah!", also by Foster, is correct; it was published in 1848, and taken up almost as a signature tune by the Forty-Niners, who parodied it with various verses, including those quoted by Flashman. [p. 81] 21.

Isabelle

From the earliest settlers who braved months of travel across mountains and deserts, to the Forty-Niners who came here to make their fortunes, from the Dust Bowl refugees who forged west to rebuild their lives, to those who continue to come here today -- from all over the world -- in pursuit of a dream.

Antonio Villaraigosa: Prop 8 Wasn't Just Unconstitutional, it was Un-Californian

It needs another Pat Brown to convince Californians and the rest of the world that the Dream of the Forty-Niners - like the more recent dream realized by the San Francisco Giants - is not dead.

Richard H. Smith: The Last Hurrah of Jerry Brown