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Paul Layendecker's "WAY BACK WHEN" for Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 1848 Gold was discovered on John Sutter's Mill, by James Marshall, starting the California gold

John Sutter, in full John Augustus Sutter, original name Johann August Suter, (born February 15, 1803, Kandern, Baden [Germany]—died June 18, 1880, Washington, D.C.), German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California. Discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush. Sutter spent much of his early life in Switzerland; he was a Swiss citizen and served in the Swiss army. Fleeing from bankruptcy and financial failures and leaving his wife and children in Switzerland, he reached California in 1839 and persuaded the Mexican governor to grant him lands on t...

On Jan. 24, 2011, a suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport international arrival gate killed 37 people and injured more than 170 others.

California has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control. No wonder so many people are leaving.

Wagonloads of freshly harvested wheat from McFarland Ranch head to Sacramento to be ground into flour. Local farmers in the 1860s and 1870s grew thousands of acres of wheat and