forty-niners
California rush pioneers
Forty-niners were prospectors who rushed to California during the Gold Rush of 1849, seeking fortune in the newly discovered goldfields.
The term now applies to anyone associated with that historical migration or its legacy.
The San Francisco 49ers, the NFL team, take their name from this history: The Niners are playing Sunday.
Mineral deposit searchers
- minersOre extractors
- panningLateral camera traverse
- placerMineral-rich sediment accumulation
- Sutter's Mill1848 gold discovery location
claims · goldfields · nuggets · motherlode · sluice · boomtowns · diggings · assay
Those who establish homes
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- frontierEdge of settlement
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
- trailblazersThose who open territory
pathfinders · Argonauts · westward · hardship · provisions
California seat of government
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
- StocktonCentral California port city
- MarysvilleAmerican municipal name
Mid-nineteenth century date
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- transcontinentalSpanning an entire continent
- frontierEdge of settlement
prospectors
Mineral deposit searchers
Sutter's Mill · claims · goldfields · nuggets · motherlode · sluice · boomtowns · diggings · assay · ore
settlers
Those who establish homes
- emigrantsPeople leaving their country
- frontierEdge of settlement
- homesteadersLand-claiming rural settlers
trailblazers · pathfinders · Argonauts · westward · hardship · provisions
Sacramento
California seat of government
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
- StocktonCentral California port city
- MarysvilleAmerican municipal name
1849
Mid-nineteenth century date
- expansionismPolicy of territorial growth
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- transcontinentalSpanning an entire continent
- 1800s AmericaOregon Trail, Trail of Tears, transcontinental railroad, Civil War, Abraham Lincoln
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- frontier lifehomesteaders, farmer, homesteading, shepherd, pioneer women
- Gold RushCalifornia Gold Rush, gold miners, gold mining, gold flakes, gold nuggets
- seekersseekers, seeker, treasure hunters, searcher, fortune seekers
forty-ninersDallas Cowboys
Texas professional football team
Seattle Seahawks · Los Angeles Rams · Arizona Cardinals · Oakland Raiders · Las Vegas Raiders
forty, nine, fourteen, nineteen, forties, fourteenth, forty-nine, forty-four, fourfold