Download or read book Rise Ruin Restoration written by Cheryl Anne Stapp and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, Sutter's Fort attracts more than 100,000 visitors from all over the world, and occasionally the very famous come. Queen Elizabeth II scheduled Sutter's Fort as a must-see during her 1963 tour of California. Rise, Ruin and Restoration answers the questions visitors ask: - Why (and how) did Swiss immigrant John Sutter build a high-walled fortress in the wilderness? Who were his employees? - Who were the pioneers that traveled to California in covered wagons, making Sutter's Fort their initial destination? - What was the role Sutter's Fort played in the rescue of the Donner Party? The Bear Flag Revolt? The American conquest of California? - Why did the 1848 gold discovery bring ruin-and who owned Sutter's Fort after John Sutter left? When did the structure decay and collapse? - Why was it important to restore Sutter's Fort in the 1890s? How much did it cost? - What great discovery in the 20th century changed the ways in which visitors experience Sutter's Fort today?

Download or read book Sutter s Fort State Historical Monument written by Sutter's Fort State Historical Monument (Sacramento, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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 Gold Rush Capitalists written by Mark A. Eifler and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interaction of capitalism and community in the founding of the gold rush city of Sacramento, and of the clashes between miners and city founders.

Download or read book Sutter s Fort State Historical Monument written by Sutter's Fort State Historical Monument and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sutter s Fort Historical Museum written by Sutter's Fort Historical Museum (Sacramento, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Sutter, history of the ranch he founded, the fort he built, the discovery of gold, the Gold Rush and its effects on him, and his losses. Description of the fort and its restoration. Well illustrated.

Download or read book Sutter s Fort Historical Museum written by Calif Sutter's fort historical museum. Sacramento and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sutter s Fort State Historical Monument Sacramento written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sacramento s Gold Rush Saloons written by Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as 1839, Sacramento, California, was home to one of the most enduring symbols of the American West: the saloon. From the portability of the Stinking Tent to the Gold Rush favorite El Dorado Gambling Saloon to the venerable Sutter's Fort, Sacramento saloons offered not simply a nip of whiskey and a round of monte but also operated as polling place, museum, political hothouse, vigilante court and site of some of the nineteenth century's worst violence. From librarian James Scott and the Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library comes a fascinating history of Sacramento saloons featuring the advent of all types of gaming, the rise of local alcohol production and the color and guile of some of the region's most compelling personalities..

Download or read book John Sutter written by Iris Wilson Engstrand and published by Powerplus. This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the man associated with the gold rush in California, detailing his various business ventures and pioneering exploits in California.

Download or read book Sutter s Fort written by Willard Luce and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Sutter's Fort, California, in the 1840's included Indian raids, wild animal hunts, roundups, and daily chores. One in a series that shows life in developing America.

Download or read book Life in California Before the Gold Discovery written by John Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Emigrant s Guide to Oregon and California written by Lansford Warren Hastings and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1845, this guidebook for pioneers is a reproduction of one of the most collectible books about California and the Western movement. It was the guidebook used by the Donner Party on their fateful journey. In addition, because Hastings' shortcut route through the Rockies produced such tragedy, the War Department commissioned The Prairie Traveler.

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Download or read book Sutter s Fort written by Oscar Lewis and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1966]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the career of Swiss immigrant John A. Sutter who founded his California fort in 1839, commanded it in the 1840's and lost it to the forty-niners.