
Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how that discovery changed the history of the west forever.
Cast

John Dehner
Capt. John Sutter

Henry Jones
Joe Gillis

Gene Evans
Sam Brannon

Ken Curtis
Kentuck

Victor Mohica
Joaquin Murieta

Robert Hays
Bret Harte / Narrator

Cliff Osmond
Harry Love

Don Haggerty
Jake Brown
Coleman Creel
Owens

Henry Kendrick
C.C. Smith

Bill Zuckert
Parson
Bert Santos
Unknown
John Aspiras
Unknown

John Bishop
Thomas
David Chambers
Unknown
Stewart Falconer
Unknown
John Hansen
Unknown

William Moore
Unknown

H.E.D. Redford
Unknown

Oscar Rowland
Unknown
James Lyle Strong
Unknown
Scott Wilkinson
Russ Kincaid
Dan Rogers
Prospector

Alan Meyer
Young Prospector
Crew
Jack Hively
Director
Bret Harte
Writer

Roy London
Story
Thomas C. Chapman
Story
Trevor Jolly
Editor
Stephen W. Gray
Director of Photography

Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Executive Producer

James L. Conway
Producer
Paul Staheli
Production Design
Dale Angell
Sound Effects Editor

John Cacavas
Original Music Composer
Don Perry
Music Supervisor
Jim Simard
Art Direction
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