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The Gold Rush of 1849 would draw ninety thousand fortune seekers, known as Forty-niners or Argonauts, to ford the Colorado River—part of a migration of men, women, and families that has been called “the largest single western movement in the nation’s history.”
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The Gold Rush of 1849 would draw ninety thousand fortune seekers, known as Forty-niners or Argonauts, to ford the Colorado River—part of a migration of men, women, and families that has been called “the largest single western movement in the nation’s history.”
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Forty-niners number three back-up quarterback and former collegiate top-athlete Heisman trophy winner, Troy Smith, will play Sunday for injured starter, Alex Smith.
NFL Plays Sunday in London With Eye on European Expansion 2010
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It came west on the wagon trains with thousands of Forty-niners who were traveling to the gold fields of California.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The horrible disease-bearing scourge of the Forty-niners had not yet swept through on the Santa Fe and other trails.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Eight years later they lost another son, John, to cholera, the pitiless old scourge of the Forty-niners.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The 1849 gold rush had temporarily emptied the city, as San Franciscans joined the manic exodus to the nearby goldfields, but the streets quickly filled up again with bankers, shippers, merchants, and saloonkeepers, all dedicated to helping the Forty-niners alternately save, spend, lose, or waste their hard-earned riches.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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But pilgrims, land-grabbers, sodbusters, Forty-niners, and a nation with galloping expansionist urges were not the only problems for the Comanche nation in those years.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The 1849 gold rush had temporarily emptied the city, as San Franciscans joined the manic exodus to the nearby goldfields, but the streets quickly filled up again with bankers, shippers, merchants, and saloonkeepers, all dedicated to helping the Forty-niners alternately save, spend, lose, or waste their hard-earned riches.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Eight years later they lost another son, John, to cholera, the pitiless old scourge of the Forty-niners.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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