Finding gold is tough. Most of the gold was found by relatively few miners. There were thousands of people panning gold on the same rivers, and there just wasn't enough gold for everyone.
the forty niners found lots of gold
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They have won 503 to date.
Joe Montana, Steve Young, and many more.
Because most of them left there home in the year 1849. So many people came that it became a state and the famous forty-niners now have a football team named after them.... not that there very good.
Forty niners came to California for many reasons. They came to get their chance at the gold that had been found there. They also had some financial or economic difficulties that led to their decision. Some reasons were more personal that they already had family there and the gold there was just a bonus.
Six times - the 49ers won in 1998 and 2012.
After gold was discovered in California, many people decided to become forty-niners, or people who went to California to find gold, starting in 1849.
Forty niners came to California for many reasons. They came to get their chance at the gold that had been found there. They also had some financial or economic difficulties that led to their decision. Some reasons were more personal that they already had family there and the gold there was just a bonus.
Some did, while many more barely eked out a living by prospecting. Eventually they took other jobs such as farmers, tradesmen, and dockworkers.
The Forty-Niners were gold miners in California during the Gold Rush. Many of them had traveled a long way from across the country with the hope of becoming rich. However, they instead had a very hard time and almost none, if any, made a fortune by mining gold. Instead, the people who got rich were the ones who sold the gold miners their equipment (IE, denim jeans, etc).