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Sutter's Fort;: Gateway to the gold fields (The American forts series)
Sutter's Fort Gateway to the gold fields - The American forts series Author:Oscar Lewis The fort that Captain John A. Sutter built in California's Central Valley was the focal point of one of the most dynamic eras in American history, a dramatic and sweeping story that is vividly reconstructed in this latest volume in the American Forts Series. The history of California lives in these pages-- the California of 1839-- from a sp... more »arsely-governed Mexican territory to its emergence into statehood and the flood of the gold rush that spelled the end of the empire Sutter had carved in Central California.« less