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  • 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 David Campbell 2006

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

    Archive 2006-08-01 David Campbell 2006

  • 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 Richard H. Smith 2010

  • 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 Fergus M. Bordewich 2011

  • 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 Estelle Bruno 2010

  • (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 Estelle Bruno 2010

  • 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 2010

  • 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 Estelle Bruno 2010

  • 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 2010

  • 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 Richard H. Smith 2010

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