It is late summer 1839, and John Sutter makes his first journey up the Sacramento River to establish a fortified colony that will be the…
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While making his morning inspection of the sawmill he is building with John Sutter near the Maidu Indian village of Cullumah — now Coloma —…
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Ten months before California becomes a state, voters overwhelmingly approve a constitution and elect a Legislature and a governor. There are some 107,000 persons of…
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