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| | Welcome to Sutter Creek, California - History |
 | | Sutter commonly paid the Indians in shelter, food, clothing and perhaps some glass beads or other trinkets in exchange for their labor, building his fort, raising crops, caring for thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and hogs, catching fish, delivering pelts, and serving as soldiers against tribes Sutter suspected of stealing his horses. |
 | | Sutter was inclined to harshly punish insubordinate actions by the Indians, such as leaving the harvest at New Helvetia to attend to a good hunting or acorn season. |
 | | Sutter did try, with partners, to become a merchant to all the miners, but after being cheated by his partners, and with creditors hounding his every step, Sutter determined that the only way to avoid losing everything was to deed his land to his son, John Sutter, Jr. |
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