To read Captain Sutter's account of finding out about the gold, follow this link. http://malakoff.com/sutter.htm
John Sutter
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John Sutter was a Swiss immigrant to America.
He was born in 1803 in Europe and left to seek his fortune in the New World. After
traveling the continent and visiting Hawaii and Alaska, he reached the site of present-day
Sacramento in 1839. Receiving a land grant from the Mexican government, he began building
an economic empire of agriculture and cattle. To read Captain Sutter's account of finding out about the gold, follow this link. http://malakoff.com/sutter.htm |
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Sutter built the fort to help protect ownership of some 50,000 sorrounding acres granted to him by the Mexican Government. |
