FORTY-NINER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Forty-niner

"Forty-niner" Quotes from Famous Books

... patriarchal figure who foreran civilization here in the West of America as he has in all other new lands. Head up, axe and gun in hand, looking straight forward, he is a fine visualization of the "Forty-niner." He is, too, an interesting racial contrast to the Indian of "The End of the Trail." One wonders, however, about the horse, with the elaborate trappings that clearly belong to another era-to the days of Spanish conquest, perhaps. Certainly horse and rider do not seem ...

— An Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition • Shelden Cheney

... to be a Forty-Niner to picture it all as if there that night: the great high and square room lighted by candles and the warm, yellow light of kerosene lamps; the fireplace with its huge logs blazing and roaring; the faro tables with the little rings of miners around them; and the long, pine bar ...

— The Girl of the Golden West • David Belasco

... "Delano's father was a Forty-niner, and lived in California till 1860, when he went home to H. C. and died soon after. There were wild stories ...

— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... If we go back that way, we must try to find it. Father wanted to come with me on this trip; he wanted to take care of me. He always thinks of me as a child; he's never quite realised I'm a grown man. As old as he is, I believe he could have stood this trip as well as I have. He was a forty-niner in California, you know, and has spent a lot of ...

— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

Words linked to "Forty-niner" : gold miner, gold panner, gold digger