John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier by Albert L. Hurtado

John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier

Albert L. Hurtado

412 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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In the history of the American frontier, John Sutter (1803–1880) looms large. A Swiss expatriate who attempted to create a personal empire in California’s Sacramento Valley, he founded New Helvetia, a cosmopolitan settlement whose economy depended...

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