I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
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We have this one opportunity, and if we blow it, we have blown it for good. We've fought for 60 years to get this property, and now we are just going to privatize it and cut out the real potential it has for the public.John Sutter
Already the gold-mines were beginning to be felt. Many people were then encamped, some going and some coming, all full of gold-stories, and each surpassing the other.
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I had a large bulldog which saved my life three times, when they came slyly near the house in the night he got hold of and marked them most severely.
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The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
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In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
John Sutter
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