Jonathan and Matthew Burgess had a story — well, a truth — to tell, and they wanted to tell me at Sutter's Fort State Historic Park in Sacramento, California.
It seemed appropriate.
Like many a Sacramentan, the twin brothers had walked through the preserved stone buildings, dirt paths and old trees as schoolchildren. It's where they learned about John Sutter, the pioneer who founded what would become California's capital city and who controlled land 45 miles away in Coloma, where an employee named James W. Marshall discovered gold in the American River, starting the Gold Rush.
