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The Fortymile gold rush in 1886 was to the Fortymile River, a trans-boundary river with its headwaters in Alaska, USA and its confluence with the Yukon River in the Yukon Territory in Canada. The Fortymile River is so named because the mouth is 40 miles downstream from an old (now defunct) trading post called Fort Reliance, approximately 8 miles downstream of the present site of Dawson City. (There is also a Sixtymile River, which is about 60 miles upstream of Fort Reliance.)
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How did the forty-niners get the name at?
from the gold rush of 1849...
What is niner about?
The gold rush in san francisco in 1949 is the basis for the name forty-niners because the people that came in the gold rush were nick named forty-niners.
What is niner?
The gold rush in San Francisco in 1949 is the basis for the name forty-niners because the people that came in the gold rush were nick named forty-niners.
Where did the name forty-niners come from?
Prospectors during the Gold Rush of 1849.
What were gold seekers in California known as?
Forty-Niners (from the 1849 Gold Rush).
How did the name from the 49ers in the gold rush?
Although the California gold rush began in 1848, the hundreds of thousands of people who came to California seeking gold were referred to as forty-niners, in reference in 1849.
Why were the people who the gold rush called forty niners?
The forty-niners were called that because they were gold- seekers
Why were they called fortyniners?
The forty niners were called the forty niners because the gold rush was in 1849.
If a person found gold in the gold rush they were called?
forty-niners
Who were the California gold rush prospectors?
Gold Prospectors
Who were the forty -niners?
The forty-niners were the miners who went to search for gold in 1849 during the California Gold Rush
What groups of people joined the gold rush?
the forty niners
