Author : Albert L. Hurtado
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806137728
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.
Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0736843701
Tells the story of the discovery of gold at John Sutter's mill, and how it changed California. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0759522626
The Great Gatsby meets The Godfather in this #1 New York Times bestselling story of friendship and seduction, love and betrayal. "[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa, the Mafia don who seizes his piece of the staid and unprepared Gold Coast like a latter-day barbarian chief and draws Sutter and his regally beautiful wife, Susan, into his violent world. Told from Sutter's sardonic and often hilarious point of view, The Gold Coast is Nelson DeMille's captivating story laced with sexual passion and suspense.
Author : Johann August Sutter
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494001353
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Author : John Augustus Sutter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806134932
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.
Author : Richard H. Dillon
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 1967
Category : California
ISBN :
Dillon examines the paradoxical personality of John Sutter, the Father of California, and one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of the American West.
Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2003
Category : California
ISBN : 9780720611755
In January 1848, John Augustus Sutter, "the first American millionaire," was ruined by one blow of a pickaxe. That blow revealed gold in one of the streams in Sutter's Californian estate, triggering the Gold Rush that brought hordes of greedy miners from every corner of the world to Sutter's vast domain. This is the story of this bankrupt Swiss paper maker who abandoned his family and made his way to America to seek his fortune. From New York he pushed westward, eventually acquiring a huge tract of land of which he was virtually an independent ruler and which was on the point of making him "the richest man in the world" when the Gold Rush brought disaster. For the last 30 years of his life, Sutter tried vainly to get compensation from the U.S. government. He died in 1880, a broken old man. This is a work of breathless pace, fantastic humor, and soaring invention: an extraordinary story extraordinarily told.
Author : Jane Katirgis
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 2019
Category : California
ISBN : 9781978511422
"John Sutter's entrance into American history began because of a rocky situation. He fled Switzerland in search of riches, leaving behind his wife and young children, because he owed people lots of money. After bartering his way from New York to the West Coast, Sutter started a settlement in California along the Sacramento River. But the Gold Rush changed Sutter's life forever. Primary source documents and lively sidebars help tell this story of a man who made his mark on America."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803286184
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.
Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826328229
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.
