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The Forty - Niners

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Near this point, ten Lafayette Freemasons, operating as traveling Sierra Nevada Lodge, embarked on March 27, 1849, on a six-month journey by boat to Mexico, then overland to the Pacific, then by ship to the California gold fields.
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