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Sutter's Fort

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Identifier: MSS_1608_p66_b5_f8_777a
Image of Sutter's Fort
Image of Sutter's Fort

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General note

Colored plate of a Western scene published in Westward America by H .R. Driggs.

General note

Caption on item: "Built on the present site of Sacramento in 1839 by Johan Sutter from Switzerland, this fort is linked with old Spanish California, with the Bear Flag Uprising in 1846, and with the gold rush of 1849."

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Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository

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