forty-niners

As copper prices rose fourfold between August 2003 and August 2008, thousands of migrants descended on the region, like forty-niners during the American gold rush.

The Next Empire

As copper prices rose fourfold between August 2003 and August 2008, thousands of migrants descended on the region, like forty-niners during the American gold rush.

The Next Empire

As copper prices rose fourfold between August 2003 and August 2008, thousands of migrants descended on the region, like forty-niners during the American gold rush.

The Next Empire

Coltan can be mined with very basic methods: simply dug up and sifted through pans, just as the forty-niners in the California Gold Rush worked.

THE STORY OF STUFF

Coltan can be mined with very basic methods: simply dug up and sifted through pans, just as the forty-niners in the California Gold Rush worked.

THE STORY OF STUFF

Coltan can be mined with very basic methods: simply dug up and sifted through pans, just as the forty-niners in the California Gold Rush worked.

THE STORY OF STUFF

Coltan can be mined with very basic methods: simply dug up and sifted through pans, just as the forty-niners in the California Gold Rush worked.

THE STORY OF STUFF

Her maternal grandfather, Louis Levinsky, and his brothers joined the waves of forty-niners who came to California in search of gold.

Alice Babette Toklas.

To one generation after another, from Spanish ranchers to forty-niners, Dust Bowl migrants, and wartime defense workers, California had promised a new start, a chance at quick riches.

Raymond Carver

The forty-niners, ablaze with thirst, saw these phantasms too, huge lakes shining up at them as they gazed down from some peak dreadful to ascend, dreadful to descend.

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen