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The monument (CHL No. 441) in Burnt Wagons, California, marking the site where the group killed their oxen and burned their wagonsThe Death Valley '49ers were a group of pioneers from the Eastern United States that endured a long and difficult journey during the late 1840s California Gold Rush to prospect in the Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California.
Pages in category "Films set in the 1840s" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Behind a narration in the style of Jack Webb on TV's "Dragnet", U.S. Marshal Sam Nelson, posing as Sam Smith, is sent to a gold-boom town in California to learn the identity of three killers.
1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; Pages in category "Films set in 1840" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not ...
S. The San Francisco Story; Santa Fe Trail (film) September Dawn; Seven Angry Men; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Shipwrecked (1990 film) Sisi (miniseries)
UP 49ers, an engineering association in the University of the Philippines; Top 10: The Forty-Niners, a novel by Alan Moore and Gene Ha; The Forty-Niners, a group of shōjo manga artists also known as the Year 24 Group "The 49ers", a group of Cathay Pacific Airways pilots fired on 9 July 2001; 49er, the lowest initiated rank in a Triad
The effects of the gold rush were substantial. Whole indigenous societies were attacked and pushed off their lands by the gold-seekers, called "forty-niners" (referring to 1849, the peak year for gold rush immigration). Outside of California, the first to arrive were from Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America in late 1848.
Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.. The Forty-eighters (48ers) were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe.