Global Gold Fever: How the 49ers Never Really Left—They Just Switched Shovels
The Forty-Niners, those bearded fortune-hunters of 1849, have become America’s most durable export: a brand, a mascot, an NFL franchise, and—if you squint at the world’s commodity ports and crypto exchanges—an eternal human type. From the Klondike to the Congo, from Silicon Valley’s foosball lounges to the fluorescent aisles of Dubai duty-free, the phrase still…