Download or read book The Sutter Family and the Origins of Gold Rush Sacramento written by John Augustus Sutter and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always claimed to be the victim of charlatans, but he bore considerable responsibility for his downfall. He had amassed huge debts before the gold discovery and added even more afterward. In the rough dealings of frontier capitalism in gold rush California, Sutter was easy prey. Soon after the gold discovery, Sutter’s eldest son, John Jr., (1826-1897) arrived, but soon moved south to Mexico. Hoping to obtain compensation for the land that he and his father had lost, John, Jr., returned to California in 1855 to give his lawyer a thorough statement cataloging how both Sutters were swindled. This extensive document describes the dirty deals of the first great gold rush in the western United States. Sutter’s statement has not been available for sixty years. Editor Allan R. Ottley reproduced and annotated this statement, providing a full biographical context and offering an appendix, bibliography, and index. Albert L. Hurtado’s introduction updates the book, originally published in 1942.

Download or read book Fool s Gold written by Richard H. Dillon and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story of the Gold at Sutter s Mill written by R. Conrad Stein and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1981 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the scene in California after gold was discovered on John Sutter's land in 1849 and the subsequent fortunes made and hearts broken.

Download or read book Fool s Gold written by Richard Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sutter, the father of California, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the West. With Fool's Gold, famed California historian Richard Dillon (Wells, Fargo Detective, Embarcadero) brings to life the story of Swiss immigrant John A. Sutter. Via a circuitous route, John Sutter arrived in Yerba Buena-today's San Francisco- on July 1, 1839. At the time, the territory had a population of only 1,000 Europeans, in contrast with 30,000 Native Americans. It was at that point a part of Mexico and the governor, Juan Bautista Alvarado, granted him permission to settle; in order to qualify for a land grant, Sutter became a Mexican citizen on August 29, 1840 after a year in the provincial settlement. He identified himself as "Captain Sutter of the Swiss Guard." The following year, on 18 June, he received title to 48,827 acres. Sutter named his settlement New Helvetia, or "New Switzerland," after his homeland, "Helvetia" being the Latin name for Switzerland. Sutter employed Native Americans of the Miwok and Maidu tribes, Kanakas, and Europeans at his compound, which he called Sutter's Fort; he envisioned creating an agricultural utopia, and for a time the settlement was in fact quite large and prosperous. It was for a period the destination for most California-bound immigrants, including the ill-fated Donner Party, for whose rescue Sutter contributed supplies. In 1848, gold was discovered when James W. Marshall and Sutter began the construction of Sutter's sawmill in Coloma, along the American River. Sutter's attempt at keeping this quiet failed when merchant and newspaper publisher Samuel Brannan returned from Sutter's Mill to San Francisco with gold he had acquired there and began publicizing the find. Masses of people overran the land and destroyed nearly everything Sutter had worked for. In order to keep from losing everything, however, Sutter deeded his remaining land to his son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr. The younger Sutter, who had come from Switzerland and joined his father in September 1848, saw the commercial possibilities of the land and promptly started plans for building a new town he named Sacramento, after the Sacramento River. The elder Sutter deeply resented this because he had wanted the location to be named Sutterville after them and be built near his New Helvetia domain. Eventually Sutter gave up New Helvetia to pay the last of his debts. He got a letter of introduction to the Congress of the United States from the governor of California. He moved to Washington D.C. at the end of 1865. Soon after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, John Sutter and his wife moved to Lititz, Pennsylvania (1871). But John made trips back to Washington every so often. John Sutter died in a Washington D.C. hotel room on June 18, 1880.

Download or read book Gold written by Blaise Cendrars and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sprawling, adventuresome historical novel examines the life of a Swiss pioneer driven by greed and his downfall during the California Gold Rush. John Sutter is perhaps best known today for an accidental discovery that occurred on his California property in 1848. When huge deposits of gold were revealed at Sutter’s Mill, hordes of would-be miners descended on Sutter’s previously unrivaled domain. In Gold, the renowned Swiss poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars brings his inimitable style to Sutter’s life. A bankrupt paper maker, Sutter abandons his family in his native Switzerland to pursue his fortune in America. In this inventively fictionalized tale, full of wildly witty and vivid prose, Cendrars follows the man from New York to California—where he is on the verge of becoming the richest man in the world—before the discovery of gold brings about his downfall. First published in French in 1925, Gold was the basis for the classic Western film Sutter’s Gold.

Download or read book Gold Rush Adventures written by Edith S. McCall and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1962 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the frenzied rush to California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort in 1848.

Download or read book John Sutter written by Albert L. Hurtado and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be empire builder and his times.

Download or read book John Sutter and a Wider West written by Kenneth N. Owens and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins with John Sutter's own account of his life and the discovery of gold at his sawmill in 1848. Leading historians Howard R. Lamar, Albert L. Hurtado, Iris H. W. Engstrand, Richard W. White, and Patricia Nelson Limerick then demythologize Sutter while giving him a more secure place in western history.

Download or read book The Diary of Johann August Sutter written by Johann August Sutter and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.

Download or read book John Sutter Rascal and Adventurer written by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based On Source Material, Manuscripts And Letters Pertaining To Captain John Augustus Sutter, Leading Figure In The Gold Rush And The Founder Of Sutter's Fort.

Download or read book California Gold written by James Stephens Brown and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Captain Sutter s Account of the First Discovery of Gold written by and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book John Sutter written by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.

Download or read book Captain Sutter s Gold written by Jonreed Lauritzen and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the Swiss adventurer who tried to make an empire of California and almost did.

Download or read book Captain John Sutter written by Richard H. Dillon and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sutter, "The Father of California" and the man on whose land gold was discovered, is one of California's great enigmas. Was he just an adventurer, or a far-sighted dreamer ruined by the ungrateful '49ers who swarmed over Sutter's Fort? In this insightful account, Richard Dillon comes to terms with the paradoxical history of this remarkable man.

Download or read book The Call of Gold written by Newell D. Chamberlain and published by Great West Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newell D. Chamberlain was born in 1880 and spent his early years in San Francisco. In 1926 he established Camp Midpines, so named because it was "amidst the pines and midway between Merced and Yosemite." In the 1930s he compiled this chronicle of events during and after the Gold Rush -- drawing on newspapers of the time and interviews with early pioneers and their children. The result is this kaleidoscopic view of life in a dramatic era in the history of California. Illustrated with many historic photographs, some of which have not previously been published. Book jacket.