TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holden, William M.
TI  - Sacramento: excursions into its history and natural world 
SN  - 961956100
AV  - F 869.S12 .H711 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Fair Oaks, CA
PB  - Two Rivers Pub. Co.
KW  - Natural history
KW  - California
KW  - Sacramento
N1  - Bibliography: p. [486]-[488]
N2  - This book commemorates the 150th birthday of Sacramento, born with the epic landing on August 12, 1839, of Capt. John Sutter, one of the supreme adventurers of all time. After a journey that took him to the ends of the earth-to the grass shacks of mountains of New Archangel (the Russian fur colony at Sitka, Alaska)-he at last ascended the unexplored Rio de Sacramento, he picked the site for his colony of New Helvetia. One might well regards his landing site as the Plymouth Rock of the  West, for New Helvetia was the seed of Sacramento, which became the capital of the greatest state of the greatest nation
ER  -