In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
"Johann Augustus Sutter" was a Switzerland/Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California/Sacramento, the U.S. state/state's capital. Although famous throughout California for his association with the Gold Rush, Sutter saw his business ventures fail while those of his elder son, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., were more successful.
More John Sutter on Wikipedia.We just had that perfect storm of Frisco and the ISD and Collin County and Hunt Sports Group, ... They took it as their own and ran with it and took it to a height I never could have imagined.
I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
We have this one opportunity, and if we blow it, we have blown it for good. We've fought for 60 years to get this property, and now we are just going to privatize it and cut out the real potential it has for the public.
I had a large bulldog which saved my life three times, when they came slyly near the house in the night: he got hold of and marked them most severely.
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