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Gold : being the marvellous history of General John Augustus Sutter by Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Leave it to a French poet to demythologize John Sutter, a Swiss thief and swindler who fled his native country one step ahead of the bill collectors. Sutter went first to New York, then Missouri, and finally ended up in California, where he set up a trading post and fort and, not coincidentally, something of a protection racket for other settlers. When a carpenter building a mill on Sutter's property found gold, he opened up the Swiss entrepreneur's private domain to hundreds and thousands of newcomers, a migration that changed the course of American history. Sutter died in 1880 in Washington, D.C., where he had gone to complain to Congress that his empire had been stripped away from him without due process. This is an altogether fascinating reconstruction of his strange and star-crossed life. --Gregory MacNamee

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Author

Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961

Publisher

Marlowe & Company

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781569248072

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (206 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14