forty-niner
- n a miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849
- s being nine more than forty
- The late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco .
- In No Name dwell a miner, forty-niner (Lee Marvin), and his partner (Clint Eastwood).
- At Stovepipe Wells in California's Death Valley, where many a forty-niner died of thirst before he could get to the gold fields, two resort operators sank a 200-ft.