suttor's

Updated: August 16, 2026

There were six of them altogether, tall wiry men all of them; they'd mostly been hunters and trappers in the Rocky Mountains before the gold was struck at Suttor's Mill, in the Sacramento Valley. They had been digging in '49 in California, but had come over when they heard from an old mate of a placer diggings at Turon, richer than anything they had ever tried in America.

Rolf Boldrewood - Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields