John Sutter had a land grant from Mexico and had established Sutter's Fort at what would become Sacramento. The sawmill was to provide lumber for his many enterprises as an empresario. The water race diverted the river to tur the water wheel that powered the sawmill. They had completed a test of the water wheel and had shut off the water flow. Marshall was walking the water race checking for damage when he found nuggets, not flakes.
We Love You, You Wild Wackadoodel-NutJob, Yes We Do. Believe it or Not, but long ago as a kid of 7yrs. young, my dad to us fishing & camping on the American River. Low and Behold, we found Gold in the river right under our feet. I told my dad 'Hey Look, Something is Shining'. He reached down and scooped up two Nuggets. Total weight was about 12-14 grams. Cool.
That crayfish probably thought he'd struck gold. Nibbling on Wonderhussy toes. Glad you could enjoy a cooling sit in the historic waters of the American river. More famous now than it was before. Classic Wonderhussy adventure. ❤❤❤
Yeah , that's what happened to Auburn , Grass Valley , and now Oroville ! what was quiet little communities for a 100 years is now Cities ! and horrible cities I might add .
It's a bit ironic for me to watch Sarah in a California River while I'm 5 miles from the Nolichucky River in Northeast Tennessee that had a devastating flood this past weekend. The town of Erwin Tennessee is cutoff. A lot of Bridges and roads to Erwin are gone. Keep the people of Northeast Tennessee and Western North Carolina in your prayers.
I have family in North Carolina and have been getting info from them. So terrible what has happened back there. Thank you for mentioning the people there.
Hey Sarah! I've been a subscriber for wonderhussy for quite a while. So I thought I'd edify you a little more. When Marshall found gold he told Sutter. Sutter went to the Gov of Mexico and asked for a land grant. The Gov said sure! I'm a nice guy. That Gov was my ancestor, Juan Baptiste Alvarado. Small world, eh?
And sadly, Alta California (Spanish Land) became California the State in 1950. Rapid change came to California with the discovery of gold. San Francisco exploded in size as did those towns in Nevada. There is still a gold bonanza in California still waiting to be exploited and buried in a little piece of California's WWII history.
I'm blessed to live on the top of Mt. Murphy in the background of your entire video. You should see it in the winter and spring when all the mountains are green!
I have panned for gold all over that area. It’s still full of “fly poop” sized flakes of gold and you can find gold in almost every pan. Your money maker was sitting on some gold!
Francisco López discovered gold in Placerita Canyon, California on March 9, 1842. This was the first documented discovery of gold in California and the first commercially significant placer gold mine in the state. The discovery site is marked by the "Oak of the Golden Dream" in Placerita Canyon State Park. The oak was registered as a state historical landmark in 1935.
Hey Sarah...nice video with all its history of all the Gold from them there hills! It's a very nice pretty place to relax and enjoy, and perhaps if you're daring enough....to take a skinny dip in the American River 👙 and try not getting a nibble on your who-ha!! Yikes!! 😬 From crazy little crawdads 🦞 😲 but at least it was just your toe! 🦶 Thanks for taking one for the team! 👍 Fun, entertaining and informative video. In the word's of Huell Howser..."Now that's California Gold!!" 😃😆
Actually gold was first discovered in placerita canyon (placer) in southern California in 1842 when Francisco Lopez found some on a wild onion he pulled out of the ground I used to live near there and they still have the oak of the golden dream
You should go to Sutter`s Fort in Sacramento and check it out. I don`t know if they would let you "film " there or not but you will leave with a deeper understanding of the history of at least the central/northern part of the sate you are living in. Sutter told Marshall to keep his mouth shut for a reason, Sutter had become practically a king in that part of California and the Gold rush ruined his set up. It`s really interesting with the way it is set up with the tour. There is a Native Museum around out back and WOW!!!
Great history lesson Sarah. The rivers throughout the Mother Lode Country have great swimming holes. The water is super clear, just the right temps for swimming or floating and lots of holes to enjoy not being hindered by cloth.
I used to live up there. Nice to see it again. Sutter spilled the beans on the gold when he went to the assay office in San Francisco. Sarah, you just like to soak in water. I so get that. If it's too hot cool water is prized. Too cold, then warm water is the key. You are a bath lady. You like to be clean, but more than that you like to feel the surrounding comfort of water. Water is your element. What is odd is that you live in a place where it is a rare natural event. This is the mystery of Wonderhussy. Yes, I've had magic beans. So What?
Thank you for the history lesson of the discovery of gold in the foothills of NorCal. It was fun having you as the hostess visiting, and narrating, this journey. Nice to see you having a nice time “cooling-down” in the river on a hot day. Looking forward to more fun adventures from you soon. Best wishes and regards! 😊
Sutter was a forward thinking Man, he knew people would need lumber to build towns and homes and piers and ports for shipping bringing in goods and trade
John (or Johann) Sutter was a Swiss citizen who left Switzerland fleeing from bankruptcy and financial failures (leaving his wife and children behind in Switzerland.) He didn't come straight to the US though. He had many financial failures in his life including his US ventures. My dad taught at John Sutter Elementary School in Santa Clara, CA for decades.
Amongst the 1849ers was a man from New South Wales (Australia had not yet been created) named Edward Hargreaves. Upon arriving at the Californian gold fields he noted in his journal that the geology reminded him of the hills of his native colony. He returned to the Bathurst district in New South Wales and replicated Marshall's feat of finding large amounts of alluvial gold. Hargreaves is credited with starting the 'Australian' gold rushes of the 1850s - a direct consequence of the Californian goldrush. Thus James Marshall had an indirect influence on the course of Australian history.
sutters fort is preservered as a historical monument in a Sacramento park. I recommend a small indigenous people's museum in that park where, among other exhibits, some artifacts from Ashi, the last survivor of the tribal people in California are displayed. Ashi has a nice little book about his life. he lived in Berkley at the collage in his last years, as a sort of living cultural exhibit, teaching how to make bows and such, riding the trolly cars in the city.
Well, the American River is still turning out Gold...Wonderhussy's ho-ha is as valuable and beautiful as any of the nuggets that was found at Sutter's mill in 1849!
❤ You are always a delight. I think it is precisely because you went to school in California that you may not have learned where Gold was discovered and the many times you talked about Gold -floating- in the river 🙄 Thank you for all your hard work. I would really love to see an interview with your mother and grandmother. You can place them in a hard shadow and electronically alter their voices to preserve their privacy. ( like witnesses against the Mafia or Drug Cartels ) They could relate their impressions and knowledge of the young Future Celebrity WonderHussy. We need the true origin story for our super hero!
Nice! Vegas Gold meets California's Gold, so happy you dipped in there... Such a fine place to do so on your California Adventure! Huell would be so proud of you! So, there is this place where you can tube along the "Moke River," it starts at a PG'NE hydroelectric station, you can tube a ways, (used a tractor innertube) then have to get out before the rapids, then walk the not so short way along the road canopied in moss back to your car. There is LOTS of gold along hwy 49 , and I hope you find it all before going home and shoot it. If not, well there is next year. (It's been over 20+ years, since the 90's and I hope the "gold" is still there for you) Aloha Sarah Mahalos for the videos of the area.
Sarah missed the fact there was a meteor that came apart over that very state park on April 22, 2012. The park was flooded with people looking for parts of the meteor, which was a rare type of meteor and those that found parts of the meteor sold them for $$$$. I live nearby.
Could be mistaken on this, Mormon Island was an area located downstream from Coloma. When the Utah members were returning from the 1845 border war they wintered at that location and found gold prior to the Sutter Mill strike... This information was in “Men To Match My Mountains “ as I remember, it was mentioned in the chapter regarding Tragedy Springs.
THIS WAS GREAT! I really want to explore that river being a recreational prospector - now you've helped me - well, let's say 'be there' . The trip from WI is such a drag -Thank You! I just love your take on things - can't wait to get away from the old bag! Ha - When I get out there I AM so going to remember you right as the base of that monument. What a memory!
And Colt started making the 5 shot, .31 caliber pocket pistols for the California bound seekers and from 1850 to 1873, he produced more than 350,000 pistols. This pistol was the most produced pistol of all his pistol line.😮
The Foothills was the closest place where good pine trees were available to saw lumber. Down in the Central Valley where Sutter's Fort was in Sacramento only had Oak and Cottonwood. Sutter was trying to establish an independent empire for himself. He needed everything and established a Hog Farm and lots of things spread out over a large area. The sawmill that Marshall was building was water powered.
No need to gild, you’re pure gold WH, a living national treasure. Another great contextual dive in history, filling in the gaps of what ‘everyone knows’. Thank you, wander far and safely. ❤👍😎
Yeah, I was there with My college class ftom MoorPark college, My girlfriend and I and My Mom enrolled in the class too so every School holiday is when our class got on the road traveling around California learning about it's history while there where it took place. It was called California history on the road. I was 21 when I was there and all over visiting the different gold towns along the American River. I'm 65 now.
I owned a piece of land in southern ohio. Had a small waterfall with a puul a few feet deep. After working on the woods one day, i decided to sit down in the pool and cool off. Suddenly, 2 crawdads went up my shorts. They didnt pinch me but their legs have spiked on them to cling to whatever. I jumped up quickly!!! A startling experience!!!!
I used to float a couple miles down the American River and dive down to grab large crawfish. I would have a couple gallons by the time I reached friends downriver with a fire and huge pot of boiling water. We would pig out by dipping the crayfish in melted butter. Fun days.
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You're so good at what you do! Learn + laugh = remember.
Crawdad vs pink snapper at Sutter's Mill site , News at 11 ! 😅👍👍
Har har😂
Oh I get that😂.
Hilarious
Good relaxing time in honor of our naked pioneers!Enjoyed t!
Skinny dipping with Wonder Hussey! It's still on my bucket list lmao. Keep nudifying the world one skinny dip at a time.
John Sutter had a land grant from Mexico and had established Sutter's Fort at what would become Sacramento. The sawmill was to provide lumber for his many enterprises as an empresario. The water race diverted the river to tur the water wheel that powered the sawmill. They had completed a test of the water wheel and had shut off the water flow. Marshall was walking the water race checking for damage when he found nuggets, not flakes.
We Love You, You Wild Wackadoodel-NutJob, Yes We Do. Believe it or Not, but long ago as a kid of 7yrs. young, my dad to us fishing & camping on the American River. Low and Behold, we found Gold in the river right under our feet. I told my dad 'Hey Look, Something is Shining'. He reached down and scooped up two Nuggets. Total weight was about 12-14 grams. Cool.
You sound watch Paint your wagon
This is the video Sara was taking about.
Good grief. That’s a huge memorial for in the middle of no place.
That crayfish probably thought he'd struck gold. Nibbling on Wonderhussy toes. Glad you could enjoy a cooling sit in the historic waters of the American river. More famous now than it was before. Classic Wonderhussy adventure. ❤❤❤
I moved out of the S.F. Bay Area seven years ago. I now live five miles up the road from there it's the best thing I ever did!
Yeah , that's what happened to Auburn , Grass Valley , and now Oroville ! what was quiet little communities for a 100 years is now Cities ! and horrible cities I might add .
It's a bit ironic for me to watch Sarah in a California River while I'm 5 miles from the Nolichucky River in Northeast Tennessee that had a devastating flood this past weekend. The town of Erwin Tennessee is cutoff. A lot of Bridges and roads to Erwin are gone. Keep the people of Northeast Tennessee and Western North Carolina in your prayers.
I have family in North Carolina and have been getting info from them. So terrible what has happened back there. Thank you for mentioning the people there.
Tragic what your part of the country is going thru. Things look very bad. 💔
It looks devastating 😢. We are sending what we can to try and support North Carolina.
Hey Sarah! I've been a subscriber for wonderhussy for quite a while. So I thought I'd edify you a little more. When Marshall found gold he told Sutter. Sutter went to the Gov of Mexico and asked for a land grant. The Gov said sure! I'm a nice guy. That Gov was my ancestor, Juan Baptiste Alvarado.
Small world, eh?
And sadly, Alta California (Spanish Land) became California the State in 1950. Rapid change came to California with the discovery of gold. San Francisco exploded in size as did those towns in Nevada. There is still a gold bonanza in California still waiting to be exploited and buried in a little piece of California's WWII history.
Love seeing you at my walking path and river I get to live by. So cool seeing you get a skinny dip in.
I love your California trips.
I'm blessed to live on the top of Mt. Murphy in the background of your entire video. You should see it in the winter and spring when all the mountains are green!
I have panned for gold all over that area. It’s still full of “fly poop” sized flakes of gold and you can find gold in almost every pan. Your money maker was sitting on some gold!
This is one of your best video's.
Francisco López discovered gold in Placerita Canyon, California on March 9, 1842. This was the first documented discovery of gold in California and the first commercially significant placer gold mine in the state. The discovery site is marked by the "Oak of the Golden Dream" in Placerita Canyon State Park. The oak was registered as a state historical landmark in 1935.
Wow! Ok, so we need to set the record straight. THANK YOU!
So the Gold Rush is Racist ?!
Dang, Wonderhussy, you're lucky those crayfish didn't pinch your landing flaps! Belated birthday wishes and hugs! 🤗
At 24:08 . . . The special and distinctive Wonder Hussy ornery and feisty laugh , it is a good day when we get one of those. 😁😉🥰😍
Todays search for California's gold, thank you!🎉😊
I lived in Northern Cali for 3 years 20 years ago - there is nothing more beautiful than Northern California!
You should have your own show on the travel channel b/c you are a great ambassador for America & education .
A flume is what floats the logs down the hill. Skinny panning certainly has its rewards.
I love the American River it's so beautiful there.
Instant Wonderhussy classic. Maybe #1 of all time. Supreme editing and humor, way to go girl! 🦐👍💗😆
Hey Sarah...nice video with all its history of all the Gold from them there hills! It's a very nice pretty place to relax and enjoy, and perhaps if you're daring enough....to take a skinny dip in the American River 👙 and try not getting a nibble on your who-ha!! Yikes!! 😬 From crazy little crawdads 🦞 😲 but at least it was just your toe! 🦶 Thanks for taking one for the team! 👍 Fun, entertaining and informative video. In the word's of Huell Howser..."Now that's California Gold!!" 😃😆
Actually gold was first discovered in placerita canyon (placer) in southern California in 1842 when Francisco Lopez found some on a wild onion he pulled out of the ground
I used to live near there and they still have the oak of the golden dream
Gold onion's, sounds delicious 😋
I have been there. Beautiful place.
Now called Santa Clarita, California.
Wildchild for sure. Very beautiful scenery.
Another great video by the best TH-camr WONDERHUSSY
You make us laugh so often. ThankscWonderhussey
I wouldn't mind being "stuck" there for the weekend, what beautiful scenery and interesting history.
You are to funny and brave! Wonder Hussy you are one of a kind! Thanks for sharing!
I can't wait till she opens the birthday gift I sent her!
Do tell what it is!
@@jazzcatt MY LIPS ARE SEALED!!!
Happy belated birthday Wonderhussy
Love your sense of humor. Hope you had a happy birthday in your birthday suit.
Perfect late summer entertainment. Thanks.
Happy birthday Wonder Hussey and thank you so much for bringing another smile to my face
You should go to Sutter`s Fort in Sacramento and check it out. I don`t know if they would let you "film " there or not but you will leave with a deeper understanding of the history of at least the central/northern part of the sate you are living in. Sutter told Marshall to keep his mouth shut for a reason, Sutter had become practically a king in that part of California and the Gold rush ruined his set up. It`s really interesting with the way it is set up with the tour. There is a Native Museum around out back and WOW!!!
Nice story telling Happy Birthday Too! Hope to see you in your Birthday Day suit😊🇺🇸😄😄
Genuine Hussyware!
Lovely day enjoying the waters. Thanks for sharing another adventure.
You need to have an uncensored channel where we can see you enjoy things all natural.
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Happy birthday Sarah
Belated Gappy Birthday! Great history lesson!
Great history lesson Sarah. The rivers throughout the Mother Lode Country have great swimming holes. The water is super clear, just the right temps for swimming or floating and lots of holes to enjoy not being hindered by cloth.
The gold in this video is the quality of the stories that Sara tells.
I used to live up there. Nice to see it again. Sutter spilled the beans on the gold when he went to the assay office in San Francisco. Sarah, you just like to soak in water. I so get that. If it's too hot cool water is prized. Too cold, then warm water is the key. You are a bath lady. You like to be clean, but more than that you like to feel the surrounding comfort of water. Water is your element. What is odd is that you live in a place where it is a rare natural event. This is the mystery of Wonderhussy. Yes, I've had magic beans. So What?
That’s our girl, doing a “whole has the better money maker “ with a river, a true one and only. Great vid as as always. Bravo
Honey Gold nuggets don’t float 😂😂😂
but democrat promises do
Beautiful video! You knowledge of history is amazing!!
happy birthday!!!!!
Great video Sarah 😊
Nice to see Wonderhussys motherly instincts coming out when she seen the lonely Cat 🤫😁
you are such a kick, love your historical referrence too. Thanks again.
Floating in the water. 😅😂
Thank you Sarah....you take me with you on your adventures!to me...its wonderful!
Another fantastic episode.
Thank you for the history lesson of the discovery of gold in the foothills of NorCal. It was fun having you as the hostess visiting, and narrating, this journey. Nice to see you having a nice time “cooling-down” in the river on a hot day. Looking forward to more fun adventures from you soon. Best wishes and regards! 😊
You look so happy when you go skinny dipping? Steven the Naturist 😃😃
@12:55 I haven’t heard that word starts with a “P” ends with “Tang” for decades. Nice! You are one funny factual lady!
Cool video as always. Once panned for gold in Idaho Springs, Colorado where gold was 1st discovered there!!! 😎
Argo
Sutter was a forward thinking Man, he knew people would need lumber to build towns and homes and piers and ports for shipping bringing in goods and trade
Great video! Happy belated Birthday 🎂
John (or Johann) Sutter was a Swiss citizen who left Switzerland fleeing from bankruptcy and financial failures (leaving his wife and children behind in Switzerland.) He didn't come straight to the US though. He had many financial failures in his life including his US ventures. My dad taught at John Sutter Elementary School in Santa Clara, CA for decades.
I read that he fed his Native American slaves gruel out of a pig troughs..not to mention some other very unsavory behavior.
Amongst the 1849ers was a man from New South Wales (Australia had not yet been created) named Edward Hargreaves. Upon arriving at the Californian gold fields he noted in his journal that the geology reminded him of the hills of his native colony. He returned to the Bathurst district in New South Wales and replicated Marshall's feat of finding large amounts of alluvial gold. Hargreaves is credited with starting the 'Australian' gold rushes of the 1850s - a direct consequence of the Californian goldrush. Thus James Marshall had an indirect influence on the course of Australian history.
👍👍👍👍👍😃, Great episode ! With some cute tongue in cheek humor..😂
sutters fort is preservered as a historical monument in a Sacramento park. I recommend a small indigenous people's museum in that park where, among other exhibits, some artifacts from Ashi, the last survivor of the tribal people in California are displayed. Ashi has a nice little book about his life. he lived in Berkley at the collage in his last years, as a sort of living cultural exhibit, teaching how to make bows and such, riding the trolly cars in the city.
Ishi.
Happy Birthday Sarah Jane, if anyone came down the path and found you skinny dipping it would be like discovering gold !!
Well, the American River is still turning out Gold...Wonderhussy's ho-ha is as valuable and beautiful as any of the nuggets that was found at Sutter's mill in 1849!
❤ You are always a delight. I think it is precisely because you went to school in California that you may not have learned where Gold was discovered and the many times you talked about Gold -floating- in the river 🙄
Thank you for all your hard work.
I would really love to see an interview with your mother and grandmother. You can place them in a hard shadow and electronically alter their voices to preserve their privacy. ( like witnesses against the Mafia or Drug Cartels ) They could relate their impressions and knowledge of the young Future Celebrity WonderHussy. We need the true origin story for our super hero!
Yes! It sounds like great idea 🥰😛😊💛
It's was a sausage fest before. And still one now. Thanks for being there.
A+ WH. My Dad took me to Sutter's way back in 65 what a flashback thx🥰
yeah , last I heard, crawdads are afraid of the hairy beaver ...
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an excellent Adventure , WonderHussy ❤😂😊
I would have never seen Sutters Mill if it had been for your Good Werk
Thanks so much. I do try to imagine what land looked like 200 years ago
Belated "Happy Birthday Wonderhussy"! I would go panning for gold with you anytime. Another gem of a video!
Nice! Vegas Gold meets California's Gold, so happy you dipped in there... Such a fine place to do so on your California Adventure! Huell would be so proud of you! So, there is this place where you can tube along the "Moke River," it starts at a PG'NE hydroelectric station, you can tube a ways, (used a tractor innertube) then have to get out before the rapids, then walk the not so short way along the road canopied in moss back to your car. There is LOTS of gold along hwy 49 , and I hope you find it all before going home and shoot it. If not, well there is next year. (It's been over 20+ years, since the 90's and I hope the "gold" is still there for you) Aloha Sarah Mahalos for the videos of the area.
Thanks for showing me the landscape out there in the great state of "beautiful tanned-skin (golden) wimmenz". Keep it up! 💙
Sarah missed the fact there was a meteor that came apart over that very state park on April 22, 2012. The park was flooded with people looking for parts of the meteor, which was a rare type of meteor and those that found parts of the meteor sold them for $$$$. I live nearby.
Love your story telling and of course a bit of history
Could be mistaken on this, Mormon Island was an area located downstream from Coloma. When the Utah members were returning from the 1845 border war they wintered at that location and found gold prior to the Sutter Mill strike... This information was in “Men To Match My Mountains “ as I remember, it was mentioned in the chapter regarding Tragedy Springs.
I join the chorus of commenters who love you, Sarah!
Crayfish would never hurt you! As kids we used catch them by buckets full and roast them!!
THIS WAS GREAT! I really want to explore that river being a recreational prospector - now you've helped me - well, let's say 'be there' . The trip from WI is such a drag -Thank You! I just love your take on things - can't wait to get away from the old bag! Ha - When I get out there I AM so going to remember you right as the base of that monument. What a memory!
Very nice......Beautiful California, thanks for the history lesson......
Wonderhussey is our gold!
It's been several years since we visited Sutter's Mill. No admission fees back then! 👍🏼
And Colt started making the 5 shot, .31 caliber pocket pistols for the California bound seekers and from 1850 to 1873, he produced more than 350,000 pistols. This pistol was the most produced pistol of all his pistol line.😮
Thanks! Happy Birthday!
SJ we just had a wonderful day with you today.Loved the cat pun, You have to take them when you get em.
I'm glad you stayed in California to help youe mom because you have shared so much California history. Thanks
The Foothills was the closest place where good pine trees were available to saw lumber. Down in the Central Valley where Sutter's Fort was in Sacramento only had Oak and Cottonwood. Sutter was trying to establish an independent empire for himself. He needed everything and established a Hog Farm and lots of things spread out over a large area. The sawmill that Marshall was building was water powered.
Sarah, Aloha from Hawaii, I enjoy watching your videos. You have a good singing voice.
No need to gild, you’re pure gold WH, a living national treasure. Another great contextual dive in history, filling in the gaps of what ‘everyone knows’. Thank you, wander far and safely. ❤👍😎
You should check out Sutters Fort in Sacromento.
Yeah, I was there with My college class ftom MoorPark college, My girlfriend and I and My Mom enrolled in the class too so every School holiday is when our class got on the road traveling around California learning about it's history while there where it took place. It was called California history on the road. I was 21 when I was there and all over visiting the different gold towns along the American River. I'm 65 now.
I owned a piece of land in southern ohio. Had a small waterfall with a puul a few feet deep. After working on the woods one day, i decided to sit down in the pool and cool off. Suddenly, 2 crawdads went up my shorts. They didnt pinch me but their legs have spiked on them to cling to whatever. I jumped up quickly!!! A startling experience!!!!
You're all up in my areas and I haven't seen ya once! Damn you're good xD
LESS SCENERY N MORE WONDERHUSSY... B GR8... PLEASE KEEPEM COMMIN WE ARE ALL WITH YOU...
I used to float a couple miles down the American River and dive down to grab large crawfish. I would have a couple gallons by the time I reached friends downriver with a fire and huge pot of boiling water. We would pig out by dipping the crayfish in melted butter. Fun days.
Congrats on your latest revolution, around the sun!
Hello Sarah's mom and grandma.