They say that all Forty-niners who remained in California either became millionaires or paupers.
A few of the Forty-niners gained the riches they sought, but the greater part of the gold-seekers barely made a living by the most exhausting toil.
A number of passengers got out their white suits of linen or cotton; but the majority of the Forty-niners stuck to their flannel shirts and coarse trousers and boots.
However, the Forty-niners aboard her had not much thought for the looks of the city; their minds were more upon whether the Georgia had arrived, and how soon they could get aboard her, for the Isthmus and California gold fields.
Personal journals and narratives of the Forty-niners are numerous, but they must be used with caution.
It was nearly half a century after the journey of Lewis and Clark that the Forty-Niners were crossing the Plains, whither, meanwhile, the Mormons had trekked in search of a country where they might live as they liked.
Every one, absolutely every single one of the forty-niners would have made a fortune, if the chemistry of gold had been as far advanced then as it is to-day.
Footnote 4: For the relation of the Mormons and the Danites to the forty-niners and the emigrant trains going west, see the author's "The Book of Cowboys.
Even now, men are working over with profit the tailings that the forty-niners threw away.
Nearly six years later, impatient Forty Niners enroute to California gold fields, having heard that the shortest way was through this forbidden sink, demanded that their guide take them across it.
Tales of treasure came in the wake of the Forty Niners but it was not until 1860 that the first prospecting party was organized by Dr.
Too Many Fractions On the Nevada desert wind-whipped Mount Davidson (or Sun Mountain) guided the Forty Niners across the flat Washoe waste.
The emigration of the forty-niners was attended by worse sufferings than the trail had yet known.
Here's where the forty-niners get the best of it," Jim Shirley declared, as the older men gathered about the veranda steps.
I understand that we forty-niners are to have an old settlers' reunion while the young folks dance," he said.
Moulton, a Canadian, was one of the few pioneers who preceded the Forty-niners and was permitted to see Los Angeles well on its way toward metropolitan standing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
