Forty-Niner's Quest is a term used to describe the search for RICHES during the California GOLD Rush of 1849. The crossword solutions for this term are RICHES (6 letters), ORE (3 letters), GOLD (4 letters), LODE (4 letters), and PAYDIRT (7 letters). RICHES refers to the wealth that could be found during the GOLD Rush, ORE is the mineral containing the precious metal, GOLD is the precious metal itself, LODE is a vein of ORE, and PAYDIRT is the material that was sifted through to find GOLD.