A chance discovery of gold near the American River in California would change the destiny of a young American nation. A new dream had arrived, to get rich quickly. Across the nation, young men made a choice to go to California, in fact, young men from all over the world would come in search of gold.
Only a handful of Americans had seen California by the early 1840’s. San Francisco had only a few hundred residents. One of the wealthiest residents, John Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant who had come to California with a dream of owning his own private agricultural empire. More Americans were arriving in California by the mid 1840’s and Sutter welcomed them. They fit into his dream. These would be the people who would work for him. Little
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