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Vinony

Or

being the marvellous history of General John Augustus Sutter

by Blaise Cendrars · 1982

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Tells the story, in fictionalized form, of how John Sutter, an ambitious and adventurous Swiss immigrant, established an agricultural empire in California only to see it threatened by the discovery of gold at his mill in 1849.

FictionPioneersGold mines and miningFiction, historical, generalSutter, john augustus, 1803-1880California, fictionGold discoveries