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Or is a Pioneers, Gold mines and mining, Fiction, historical, general, Sutter, john augustus, 1803-1880 book.

Tells the story, in fictionalized form, of how John Sutter, an ambitious and adventurous Swiss immigrant, established an agricultural empire in California only to see it threatened by the discovery of gold at his mill in 1849.

Or was written by Blaise Cendrars.