The California Gold Rush Shortly after the acquisition of California from Mexico a man by the name of John Sutter arrived in East San Francisco Bay in 1839. Born in Germany he had to leave because he was unable to pay his creditors. With plenty of charm and letters from friends he convinced the Mexican governor of California to award him a land grant of more than 50,000 acres. John Sutter built a stockade and a fort …showed first 75 words of 2732 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2732 total…in California and take up trades staying close to the land they had grown to love Bibliography Works Cited Johnson, William Weber. The Forty-Niners. Ed. Hedley Donovan. Canada: Joan D. Manly, 1974. Paul, Rodman W. The California Gold Discovery. Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1967. ---, California Gold. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1947. Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1997.