Sutter's Fort;: Gateway to the gold fields (The American forts series)

The fort that Captain John A. Sutter built in California's Central Valley was the focal point of one of the most dynamic eras in American history, a dramatic and sweeping story that is vividly reconstructed in this latest volume in the American Forts Series. The history of California lives in these pages-- the California of 1839-- from a sparsely-governed Mexican territory to its emergence into statehood and the flood of the gold rush that spelled the end of the empire Sutter had carved in Central California.