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California. The name hasn't changed.
James Marshall
I believe they were called "greenhorns".
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.
. . . California Hence the name. If you mean where in California then all over mainly in the central region
That was the simplest and most obvious name: it was a gold rush that occurred in California!
The Gold Hunters - 1925 was released on: USA: December 1925
California. The name hasn't changed.
billy
they called it the land of gold or something that had to do with gold
gold rushers
After a discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California, in 1848 fortune-hunters, lanky nest and big family's, headed west
Betty
James Marshall
The name of the first major newspaper from the East Coast to report on the gold in California was the "New York Herald." The date of the newspaper reporting on the gold discovery in California was January 1, 1848.
I believe they were called "greenhorns".
The name "49ers" comes from the name given to the gold prospectors who arrived in Northern California around 1849 during the California Gold Rush. The name was suggested to reflect the voyagers who had rushed the West for gold. It is the only name the team has ever been affiliated with and San Francisco is the only city in which it has resided