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| San Francisco Examiner, 23-January-1898 |
175 years ago today, on 24-January-1848, John Marshall, a veteran Captain John C. Frémont's California Battalion during the Bear Flag Revolt, was leading a crew which was building a sawmill for Colonel John Sutter. The sawmill was on the American River, near Coloma. Marshall found shiny objects in the tailrace that turned out to be gold. This was the beginning of the California Gold Rush. Neither Marshall nor Sutter prospered.
The image is based on a painting by Charles Christian Nahl.
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