How To Use forty-niner In A Sentence
- On the eve of departure, many forty-niners also visited the daguerreian studio to have a ‘likeness’ or two taken for their closest and best-loved female companions, their mothers, wives and sweethearts.
- As the forty-niners crossed the Rockies, one-third of them, after reaching Fort Bridger in southwestern Wyoming, detoured from the main trail through southern Idaho and across northern Nevada.
- Born in Placerville, California, where his maternal grandparents were forty-niners, Gagliani grew up in the Italian community of San Francisco.
- Photographers like Vance captured studio dream and camp reality, treasured as mementos of a personal journey by the forty-niners and their female relatives.
- Tucked in the northwest corner of Nevada, the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Canyon look much the same as they did when the forty-niners journeyed through.
- The following year saw thousands of forty-niners heading west to make their fortune.
- The site, once a shipyard, is reclaimed land incorporating hulks of ships abandoned by the Forty-niners rushing inland for gold.
- Most of these ‘forty-niners’ had never before left the places where they had grown up.
- J.D. Borthwick, an English visitor, was amused at the swaggering style of the forty-niners.
- It was the grape of choice to slake the thirst of forty-niners.
