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单词 forty-niner
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Alberich the dwarf intrudes on the scene, a grimy forty-niner in sturdy boots and overalls, panning for gold and looking desperate. Music Review: A ?Ring? Made of California Gold 2011-06-16T22:15:29Z
The story of how a handful of 21st century “forty-niners” wound up searching for gold on a singed landscape studded with Joshua trees arcs back nearly 100 years, entangling an eclectic cast of characters. An Old Hollywood actor created a treasure map. Could it be real? 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z
They built a reputation for coffee and good fish among the newly arriving forty-niners, and in 1852 they relocated to the New World Market, then San Francisco’s central produce market, on Commercial Street. One of the Oldest Restaurants in the Country Is in San Francisco 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z
Southerners brightened at the possibility of using slave labor in California gold mines, but most “forty-niners” recoiled at the idea of black competition and demanded admission as a free state. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z
People who never lifted a pan or a pick, however, made some of the largest gold-rush fortunes by meeting the needs of the “forty-niners.” myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
"Like the frontiersman and the forty-niner, the traditional cowboy is a peculiarly American type, now following them into an honorable extinction," the story noted. A 'Last Look' at the Old-Time American Cowboy 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z
Sugden was intensely interested in these great freight trains, and reminded me of their similarity to those which made the overland trail in the States during the days of the forty-niners. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z
There was a slight pause, after which the foreman, a burly digger who had been a 'forty-niner' in California, and had seen the first rush at Turon, uttered the word 'Guilty!' Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z
Dr. Robinson was a prominent "forty-niner," and the leader of the California squatters in the war against the Sutter land claims. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z
Called “forty-niners,” the gold miners came from all over the world. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z
The party consisted of Yamanatz, Jack and Chiquita, and an old "forty-niner" who was asked to join them under the promise of good wages and the usual "interest" in any claims which might be "staked." Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter
Father, he was a forty-niner himself, an' he was a rough un if anything got in his way. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
Morgan is my name—Judge Morgan—a Welshman and a forty-niner.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25)
He was one of the real forty-niners, and knew my grandfather's folks—they all came to California the same time.... Clark's Field
Weir, one of the pioneer forty-niners, who at one time was engaged in the export commission business in San Francisco. All About Coffee
“Here’s where the forty-niners get the best of it,” Jim Shirley declared, as the older men gathered about the veranda steps. Winning the Wilderness
Later, when the real forty-niners came, men o' red blood, vigilance committees were organized an' the camps got sort o' human. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
“Look like a pair of forty-niners,” said O’Grady, “on the last lap of the trip.” Across the Mesa
And you know what used to happen in our country during the good old days of the "forty-niners" if some one jumped another's claim. Peking Dust
Was it the spirit of some poor forty-niner come back again? The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
I understand that we forty-niners are to have an old settlers’ reunion while the young folks dance,” he said. Winning the Wilderness
A 'forty-niner' ain't apt to be lazy on the shoot, an' Father's gun spit first. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
Stuart was a "forty-niner," who had crossed the continent in a prairie-schooner as a boy and had drifted into Virginia City in the days of its hot youth. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
He has mined and been in the wild life known only to the few remaining "forty-niners." A Little Girl of Long Ago
Robert Wallace, the father of Evelyn, was not one of the forty-niners, but he had come to California by way of the Isthmus not very many years later. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure
The gold fever which ran its rapid course through the veins of the historic "forty-niners" recurs at certain intervals, and seizes its victims with almost irresistible power. A Sweet Little Maid
How many o' the forty-niners died at sea? The Boy With the U.S. Miners
One particular kind of biscuit, known as the "forty-niners," had forty-nine holes in it, was believed to take forty-nine years to bake, and needed forty-nine chews to a bite. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force
Dodson led him to press forward with the first, and he was a "forty-niner," that pride of the old Californians. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State
At the time of our visit it was occupied by two men; one, a young Englishman, recently arrived from South Africa—a remittance-man, in search of novelty—the other a grizzled forty-niner. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
When Felix told me this he said—'There's a railroad to-day crosses those same mountain passes over which we forty-niners whacked our bulls. A Texas Matchmaker
Sailin'-ships, so rotten that their owners were glad to get rid of 'em, were sold to forty-niners at fancy prices. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
However, the Army Service came to our rescue with some old friends, the "forty-niners." Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force
You bet there were," agreed the forty-niner, "and the entire history of San Francisco was made around this Plaza. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks
Lem had come out of the back streets of an eastern city, bringing his brood of tall, silent, savage boys to live upon the land and, like the forty-niner, to be a sport. Windy McPherson's Son
"Old forty-niner, this beats all I ever saw!" The Border Legion
For some time there had been vague hints that there might be gold in Australia, but, before the time of the 'forty-niners' no attention had been paid to it. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
Something of the mining-camp spirit still hung over California, which had been settled by adventurers, forty-niners, gold seekers, men who had left the East to "make a new start" where there was pay dirt. The Mirrors of Washington
A forty-niner's a forty-niner, and a man that came in fifty—well, he might as well have come in sixty or seventy, or even in the twentieth century. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks
Lem McCarthy, the father of the family, had inherited it from a brother, a gold miner, a forty-niner, a sport owning fast horses, who planned to breed race horses on the Iowa land. Windy McPherson's Son
He went back to the East some time afterwards, and stayed ten or fifteen years; but he was a real pioneer and "forty-niner" all the same. A Summer in a Canyon
Even now, men are working over with profit the tailings that the forty-niners threw away. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
There were none of those nuggets which gleamed through the mud of the dollies at Ballarat, or recompensed the forty-niners in California for all their travels and their toils. The Great Boer War
"Hard luck," sympathized the old man, "coming near to being a forty-niner and missing it." The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks
One of the 'forty-niners,' who went to the California gold-fields in the first ship that sailed from Sydney after the news of the Sacramento discoveries had reached Australia, was a prospector called E. H. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
Yerba Buena and the reminiscences of a    forty-niner. The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks
"My father was one of the 'forty-niners,'" put in Jim, eagerly. The Boy With the U.S. Miners
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