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In January 1848 John Augustus Sutter, 'the first American millionaire' was ruined by one blow of a pickaxe. That blow revealed gold in one of the streams in Sutter's Californian estate, triggering the Gold Rush that brought hordes of greedy miners from every corner of the world to Sutter's vast domain.Cendrars, Blaise is the author of 'Gold Being the Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter', published 2004 under ISBN 9780720611755 and ISBN 072061175X.
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