This episode serves to frame the series with a look back at how San Francisco and its long line of successful merchants got their start from the early California days through the Gold Rush.

Sources for this episode include:

The Annals of San Francisco -  Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, James Nisbet (1855, 1999) Berkeley Hills Books
French San Francisco - Claudine Chalmers, PhD. (2007)  Arcadia Publishing, San Francisco,
National Park Service: https://www.nps.gov/people/dona-juana-briones.htm
This is San Francisco, A Classic Portrait of the City  - Robert O'Brien (1948, 1994) Chronicle Books, San Francisco
San Francisco A Pageant- Charles Caldwell Dobie (1934) D. Appleton-Century Company, NYC
San Francisco Port Of Gold -William Martin Camp (1947)The Country Life Press, Garden City, NY
PBS - The West: https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sutter.htm
California A History,  Kevin Starr (2005) Modern Library, Random House Inc, NYC
Old California in Picture and Story, Stewart Edward White (1937) Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, Garden City, NY