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The California Gold Rush
In Our Time
Sutter Lost Most of His Patriotism, Cathy
Sutter wanted to keep it pretty well a secret, although there was undoubtedly part of that. He probably saw what would happen if anyone, if this came out. So then he was really trickled out. It wasn't announced for a couple of months. A man called Sam Brennan, who was a Mormon, and they had all come out to California to get away from the Americans because the Americans didn't treat them very well. And he opened a general store near Sutter's fort. They went to San Francisco, then a very small thousand people living there, port. The gold rush began in 1849 - almost a year past between the discovery of gold and the great rush of 18
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