Treasure hunters, entrepreneurs, the poor and impoverished, the scam artists all saw it as a Golden Opportunity. Many ventured everything and a rare few struck a Bonanza. The California motherlode remains to be discovered in geologic terms.
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The forty-niners were the miners who went to search for gold in 1849 during the California Gold Rush
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They were called "forty-niners" because most traveled there in 1849.
the forty-niners were people who joined the rush for gold in California in 1849,they were people that were looking for gold
Gold was found in California in 1949. People across the country left their homes to go to California to join in the search for gold in a hope of getting rich. Theses people have been referred to as the forty-niners. Unfortunately a very few of them found the riches they were seeking.
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Forty-Niners (from the 1849 Gold Rush).
A forty sided polygon is called a "tetracontagon".
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