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John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, [1] [2] was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital.
There he met up with Sutter, who had assembled thirty men from among the local White settlers. [8] On March 23, 1847, Captain Kern and Sutter took these men into the upper Sacramento Valley. From there, the men led three separate attacks in which twenty Indians were killed, while Kern and Sutter did not lose a single man.
These court cases did not benefit Sutter Jr. except to release him of the burden of caring for the estate. [4] In Acapulco, Sutter Jr. worked and was partner in a small general store. When the principal owner died, Sutter took his share of the business. Because the business did so well, the Sutters were able to build a house near the ocean.
Trista Sutter says there was a good reason why she kept apart from her family earlier this year — and it was all due to a TV show.. The Bachelorette alum, 51, revealed in an Instagram post on ...
Trista Sutter has broken her silence following husband Ryan Sutter's cryptic posts.. It had been weeks since Ryan Sutter began posting somber posts about missing his wife of over two decades ...
In 1839 John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant of German origin, settled in Alta California and began building a fortified settlement on a land grant of 48,827 acres (197.60 km 2) at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers. He had been given the land by the Mexican government, supposedly under the stipulation that it would help to keep ...
The death is "a gross violation of everything John Dutton's character was and stands for," director Christina Voros tells USA TODAY. "It is brutal. It is heartbreaking.
When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California was still technically part of Mexico, under American military occupation as the result of the Mexican–American War. With the signing of the treaty ending the war on February 2, 1848, California became a possession of the United States, but it was not a formal " territory " and did not ...