| Several forty-niners glimpsed precious metal as they dragged themselves over the mountains. |
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| Born in Placerville, California, where his maternal grandparents were forty-niners, Gagliani grew up in the Italian community of San Francisco. |
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| During the great California gold rush of 1849, thousands of forty-niners made fortunes mining gold. |
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| The following year saw thousands of forty-niners heading west to make their fortune. |
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| Unlike the original forty-niners, though, some of today's caravans involve minivans, wetsuits and cellphones. |
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| The plant, named for John Clayton, an 18th-century Virginia botanist, is also called miner's lettuce because it grows alongside the streams where forty-niners once panned for gold. |
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| Photographers like Vance captured studio dream and camp reality, treasured as mementos of a personal journey by the forty-niners and their female relatives. |
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| It was the grape of choice to slake the thirst of forty-niners. |
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| 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. |
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| Actually, the forty-niners employed technology from the beginning. |
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| Forty-niners rushed in search of gold, and those that struck it gained status. |
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| The site, once a shipyard, is reclaimed land incorporating hulks of ships abandoned by the Forty-niners rushing inland for gold. |
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