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Albert L. Hurtado is Professor and Paul H. and Doris Eaton Travis Chair of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of several books, including John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. 

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This welcome biography of Sutter, known as the father of the 1848-49 California gold rush, updates Richard Dillon's Fools Gold: The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter of California. Hurtado (history, Univ. of Oklahoma; Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California) taps into newly opened archival collections, writing new chapters in Sutter's life. A Swiss immigrant, Sutter has become infamous for his routine enslavement and killing of American Indians while trying to create his New Helvetia empire in the Sacramento Valley of Mexican California a decade before the discovery of gold at his mill. Hurtado expands on ideas he explored in Indian Survival on the California Frontier, showing how absolutely dependent Sutter was on Indian labor while building his agrarian business and settlement. Sutter's rise and his fall from grace after the gold rush-he fought for the right to the profits from gold on his land- are fully treated. This readable and well-written biography expertly places its subject in historical context. Highly recommended for public and academic libraries.-Nathan E. Bender, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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