Search Nevada County Historical Archive
Enter a name, company, place or keywords to search across this item. Then click "Search" (or hit Enter).
To search for an exact phrase, use "double quotes", but only after trying without quotes. To exclude results with a specific word, add dash before the word. Example: -Word.

Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

An Illustrated History of California's Gold Rush by Wells Fargo Bank (PH 1-27) (34 pages)

Go to the Archive Home
Go to Thumbnail View of this Item
Go to Single Page View of this Item
Download the Page Image
Copy the Page Text to the Clipboard
Don't highlight the search terms on the Image
Show the Page Image
Show the Image Page Text
Share this Page - Copy to the Clipboard
Reset View and Center Image
Zoom Out
Zoom In
Rotate Left
Rotate Right
Toggle Full Page View
Flip Image Horizontally
More Information About this Image
Get a Citation for Page or Image - Copy to the Clipboard
Go to the Previous Page (or Left Arrow key)
Go to the Next Page (or Right Arrow key)
Page: of 34  
Go
Loading...
ys DRYTOWN Before reaching Sutter Creek on Highway 49, you will pass through Drytown and Amador City. To allay any suspicions you may have about Drytown, it did, at one time support 26 bars. The ” name derives from Dry Creek on which this “dry town was built. Te tl — 1 TEE ie Wu Per a $7 yi 8 aera UIT Mi Amador City with Amador Hotel in background AMADOR CITY In Amador City you will find two fine hostelries, a museum and a country store. The Amador Hotel has a congenial bar and a pleasant dining room, both decorated, as are the rooms, in the style of the last century. Mine House Motel, which occupies the former offices of the Keystone Mining Company, has also been restored with period furniture, but it has, anachronistically enough, a swimming pool. SUTTER CREEK Sutter Creek was named after the unfortunate Swiss whose vast inland empire was Tuined by the discovery of gold. After his hands had left for the gold fields, his crops had gone unharvested and his cattle had been run off or devoured by hungry argonauts, John Sutter made a belated bid to salvage some of his wealth by hunting for gold. He came to Sutter Creek with some of his Indians who had remained faithful. But the other miners, whether they considered his Indian helpers as slave labor or unfair competition, made him leave, and Sutter, whose land it was discovered on, never realized a penny from California’s gold. Sutter Creek is another of the quiet little towns strung like antiqued beads along Highway 49. In the back Streets you can find the older buildings and interesting stores which make it well worth a stop. 17