Field’s verse always brings me back to old John Sutter. The Gold Rush, of which he was the proximate cause, saw him try to parlay his land holdings into a fortune, only to lose almost all of ...

John Sutter was a ambitious man who wanted to carve out his ... in the Valley and he almost achieved his goal except for one historical event that spoiled his plans — the California gold rush.

An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush. In 1852 the take for the year was $80 million ($1.9 billion in 2005 dollars). This map shows some of the ...

More than 150 years ago, John Sutter touched off the fabled Gold Rush when he found gold near his mill in 1849. But the prospectors who flocked to the Sierra foothills left plenty of gold in the ...

Neither side knew that gold had recently been discovered at the sawmill Swiss immigrant John Sutter was building near Coloma. Incredulity ... A Rush of Gold Seekers By 1849, ...

In the two decades following California’s Gold Rush beginnings, 80 percent of its Native American population was lost. Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold.

That was the day James Marshall, who was building a sawmill for John Sutter on the South Fork American River, noticed flakes of something sparkling in the sand. ... England, during the Gold Rush.

After John Sutter concluded his test on the gold nugget, he returned it to James Marshall who brought it back to Wimmer. She would wear it in a pouch around her neck for the next 40 years.

Sutter's Mill, California, where John Augustus Sutter struck gold, accidentally starting the gold rush. Photo by MPI/Getty Images On January 24, 1848, American carpenter and sawmill operator James ...