Voice of America: Man Who Found California Gold Died Broke

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Man Who Found California Gold Died Broke Sep 14th 2012, 11:10 Imagine that you're John Sutter, and you're in luck. But not necessarily good luck. First, some background: You may have heard of the San Francisco 49ers, a professional American football team. Its name is taken from the year 1849, when thousands and thousands of men rushed to California, hoping to strike it rich. A year earlier in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a carpenter had discovered gold - great big nuggets of it - in the South Fork of the American River as he was building a sawmill for ...

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