00:23Greetings, Peabody again.
00:25Today's journey back into time reveals the true story behind one of the greatest events in American history.
00:30Gosh! You mean the invention of the hot dog, Mr. Peabody?
00:34Hardly, Sherman. I'm speaking of the discovery of gold in California, so you may set the way back for the
00:38year 1848.
00:40And the place?
00:41Sacramento, California, where we will meet John Sutter.
00:44Entering the way back, we were quickly flung back through time and soon found ourselves in Hop Toys, the place
00:50to go for Chinese food in Sacramento.
00:52What are we doing here, Mr. Peabody? I thought you said we were going to meet John Sutter.
00:56Oh, we are. You see, Mr. Sutter eats all of his meals here every day.
01:01That's him sitting over there behind that large bowl of lychee nut chop suey.
01:05Approaching his table, we introduced ourselves and found him really quite friendly.
01:08Nice to know you. Pull up some soy sauce and set a spell.
01:12You sure must like Chinese food, Mr. Sutter.
01:14Not me. I can't stand it. Makes me sick.
01:17Huh? Then why do you eat here every day?
01:20To get the fortune cookies.
01:21You mean to say you believe those fortunes?
01:23Sure, doesn't everybody?
01:25Hey, see, now this here is a dandy.
01:28It says I'm going to take a long trip.
01:30So I guess I'll go to Mexico for a year or two.
01:32He can't do that, Mr. Peabody.
01:34How could he discover gold in California if he's in Mexico?
01:37Come, Sherman, we must stop him.
01:39Knowing that we could never talk Sutter out of taking the trip,
01:42we did the next best thing by signing on as drivers for the stage company.
01:46All aboard!
01:48Bye, everybody!
01:49Bye!
01:50Giddy up.
01:52Urging the horses forward, we moved out, but instead of taking a long trip,
01:55we simply raced around the block and came to a halt on the exact spot where we had started.
01:59Whoa!
02:00End of the line! Everybody out!
02:02See, I do believe that's the shortest long trip I've ever taken.
02:05Hello again, Mr. Sutter.
02:06Hey, what are you doing down here in Mexico?
02:09Oh, this isn't Mexico.
02:10You happen to be back in Sacramento again.
02:13Oh, that's right.
02:13I did have a round trip ticket.
02:15Do you suppose he'll go out to his new mill now so they can discover the gold?
02:19We will leave nothing to chance, Sherman.
02:20I shall suggest it to him.
02:22Quickly returning to Hop Toys, we learned that my suspicion had been correct.
02:26Yes, Mr. Sutter, just here.
02:28Read fortune cookie, then run out.
02:30Look, this must be the fortune he read.
02:32It says, you will make many new friends today.
02:35Gosh, then that means he'll...
02:36I'm afraid so, Sherman.
02:38Sutter is out making friends.
02:40Gather round, folks.
02:41From now on, all of us is gonna be buddy buddies.
02:44Gee whiz, as long as he keeps reading fortune cookies, he'll never get around to discovering gold.
02:49However, as always, I had a plan.
02:51Getting Hop Toys permission to toy with his fortune cookies.
02:54Rats of rock!
02:56Sherman and I adjourned to a back room where we spent the rest of the night loading cookies with a
03:00very special fortune.
03:01Then, early the next morning, when Mr. Sutter had finished his breakfast,
03:04of shrimp fried rice.
03:06Hey, listen to this.
03:07You will make a great discovery in the creek by your new mill today.
03:13I better get over there right away.
03:14That did it, Mr. Peabody.
03:15He's on his way at last.
03:17Hurrying off for the mill, we arrived shortly after Mr. Sutter,
03:19and coming from the direction of the creek, we heard...
03:22Yee-hoo!
03:23Yimmy!
03:24Hooray!
03:24Well, we see you made the discovery, eh, Mr. Sutter?
03:27I sure did.
03:28Funny I never noticed it before.
03:30Now all I gotta do is dig me some worms.
03:32Worms?
03:33I'm afraid something has gone amiss.
03:35And indeed it had, for following Sutter to the creek, he saw the discovery he had made
03:39was that the stream was full of trout.
03:42Best fishing hole I ever seen!
03:44Ha ha ha ha!
03:45Oh no!
03:47I guess there's just no way to make him discover gold!
03:50But noticing a large tree just above where Sutter was fishing,
03:53I was quickly able to put another plan into action.
03:55Instructing Sherman to assist me, we hurried to the tree and chopped it down.
04:00Timber!
04:03That truly formed a wonderful dam, thus stopping the flow of water
04:06and exposing the creek bed, which was covered with large gold nuggets.
04:10Darn, what rotten luck!
04:12The water's dried up and ruined the fishing.
04:14Nothing there now but a bunch of yellow rocks.
04:16What color?
04:18Yellow.
04:19Yellow.
04:20You know, like gold?
04:22Gold.
04:23Yeah, like gold.
04:24Yeah.
04:24It's gold!
04:25That's what it is!
04:26I've discovered gold!
04:27Gold!
04:28Gold!
04:28I discovered gold!
04:30Seen the cry of, I've discovered gold, reached across the nation, bringing people by
04:34the thousands to seek their fortunes.
04:35They sought the gold in many ways, by placer mining, hydraulic mining, vegetable mining.
04:41Vegetable mining?
04:42Oh yes, much gold was found in the numerous carrot gardens.
04:45Golly!
04:46I've never heard of that!
04:47Oh, come now, Sherman.
04:48Everybody's heard of 14-carat gold.
04:52BOOM!
04:53BOOM!
04:54BOOM!
04:55BOOM!
04:56BOOM!
04:56BOOM!
04:57BOOM!
04:59BOOM!
04:59BOOM!
04:59BOOM!
05:00BOOM!
05:01BOOM!
05:01BOOM!
05:02Hmm...
05:02BOOM!
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