The Gold Rush Gold is a precious metal that people sometimes will go crazy over. When there is a case in which there is a great amount of gold even the most responsible people might just leave their homes, and business.They will run and crawl just to put their fingertips in the all mighty rock. In 1839 John Augustus Sutter migrated from Switzerland into California. While in California, Sutter met a Spanish Governor who believed Sutter was a European noble. For this reason Sutter was able to persuade the governor to give him a very large piece of land which was located in the part of California known as the Sacramento River Valley. Sutter then cultivated....

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