Gold people. Unlikely. The term most often used was the 49ers.
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Forty niner because the came in 1849.
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The miners who came west to California during the Gold Rush were often called "Forty-Niners" because they arrived in 1849 seeking gold.
they found gold in California 1849
1849- California Gold Rush!
The term "49ers" was used to refer to the gold miners who migrated to California in 1849 during the California Gold Rush. The name comes from the year 1849, which was the peak of the migration when thousands of people rushed to California in search of gold.
In 1849 miners in the area near San Francisco found gold. These miners and the rush of new miners to the area in search of fortune became known as 49ers.
The 49ers were gold miners that went to California to mine for gold in 1849.
at Sutter's Mill in 1849 in San Francisco, California
at Sutter's Mill in 1849 in San Francisco, California
The forty-niners were the miners who went to search for gold in 1849 during the California Gold Rush
The 49ers were all of the miners. The California Gold Rush occured in 1849, ergo, the miners, or people who went west in search for gold, were dubbed "'49ers."
The California gold rush was in 1849, it effected California's population by all of the immigrant miners coming to find gold, later on admitting California as a state in 1850.
The NFL team was named for the thousands of fortune seekers who traveled West in 1849 after gold was discovered in California on January 24, 1948.