it's because its like a sleepy place
During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps
because the gold rush started in 1849
The miners went to California in the gold rush were called 49ers.
The Californian 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."
During the Australian gold rush the police were called traps
California Gold Rush.
Yes, California is often called the gold rush state.
The Gold Rush
The forty niners were called the forty niners because the gold rush was in 1849.
People who looked for gold were called miners.
forty-niners
They were referred to as "49ers" because that was the year the California gold rush started (1849).
People were called 49ers b/c the gold rush happened in 1849, sum 80,000 people migrating to California in search of gold. People in fewer numbers also migrated in 1848, they were called 48ers.
because the gold rush started in 1849
Gold was discovered in California in 1849The people who looked for gold where called the fourty-niners which stands for (1849)And in the period of time when gold was in California there was so much gold that they called it the gold rush and the gold rush brought more than 100,000 people to California and the rest of the United States
because they did for stuff