General Sutter's Diary

General Sutter's Diary
Author: John Augustus Sutter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1856
Genre: American newspapers
ISBN:

Mounted clippings of the so-called diary as published in The Argonaut, Jan. 26 and Feb. 2, 9 and 16, 1878. Prepared for his legal advisors in the course of litigation over his land grants, it covers events from the time he left Missouri in 1838 to the spring of 1850 when he comments on his great losses and troubles with squatters during the gold rush. Some of the narrative is in diary form but most of it is extended recollections.

John Sutter

John Sutter
Author: Albert L. Hurtado
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780806137728

Re-examines the life of John Sutter in the context of America's rush for westward expansion in a fully documented account of the Swiss expatriate and would-be empire builder and his times.