Forty-Niners
The participants in the California Gold Rush (1848–1854) are named as Forty-niners (" forty- nine") in the USA . The term is borrowed from the year 1849.
The first major gold find was made by James W. Marshall in 1848 at Sutter's Mill , the site of a sawmill owned by Johann August Sutter , and in the same year thousands of people from all over California flocked to this place. The whole country, however, was not hit by gold fever until 1849. In the heyday of the California gold rush , gold prospectors even poured into the country from Europe , Australia and South America . As a result, California's population quintupled within a year.
The name of the San Francisco 49ers football team in the USA is reminiscent of the history of the Forty Niners .
See also: Forty-Eighters
literature
Web links
- Merrill J. Mattes: Fort Laramie Park History (PDF; 2.2 MB), Chapter VI
- Article about the California gold rush and the 49ers