Pt. 2 Captain John Sutter & Marysville (Gateway to Gold)

The 'Sutter's Gold' rose, an orange blend hybrid tea rose bred by Herbert C. Swim, was named after him.

(Basel Swiss Johann Augustus Sutter. died June 18, 1880 (aged 77)
Washington, D.C., United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Bautista_Alvarado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sutter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Helvetia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sacramento,_California
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bidwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter%27s_Mill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Marshall
https://localwiki.org/yuba-sutter/Mary_Murphy_Covillaud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hussey_Macy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Statehood_Act

Though it had only been a part of the United States for less than two years, California becomes the 31st state in the union (without ever even having been a territory) on September 9, 1850.
https://localwiki.org/yuba-sutter/Phebe_Mason_Abbott_Rideout

Mexico had reluctantly ceded California and much of its northern territory to the United States in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. When the Mexican diplomats signed the treaty, they pictured California as a region of sleepy mission towns with a tiny population of about 7,300-not a devastating loss to the Mexican empire. Their regret might have been much sharper had they known that gold had been discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, nine days before they signed the peace treaty. Suddenly, the greatest gold rush in history was on, and “forty-niners” began flooding into California chasing after the fist-sized gold nuggets rumored to be strewn about the ground just waiting to be picked up. California’s population and wealth skyrocketed.