Gold Rush - Street Preacher
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4 min readMar 28
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The California gold rush began in 1848. Captain Sutter, a German, had, in 1939, pledged allegiance to Mexico and had been granted a huge tract of land in the Sacramento Valley. James W Marshall was employed by Sutter in January 1848 to construct a Mill on a fork of the American river, 60 miles east of the present city of Sacramento. While diverting part of the river, the swift flowing water washed away loose gravel revealing glistening…
