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Sutter's Fort : gateway to the gold fields
Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
Sutter's Fort : gateway to the gold fields
Publication Information:
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1966.
Physical Description:
xiii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Series title(s):
Contents:
A young man from Burgdorf -- Empire in the making -- The Russians find a buyer -- Trailbreakers -- Warfare- California style -- Wagons westward -- The Yankees take over -- Prelude to frenzy -- Crumbling empire -- Disintegration.
Summary:
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.
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