The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.
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In this it follows the Karl May tradition of German Western stories, which often featured noble Indians and German immigrants turned pioneers and gunmen.
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Some exterior scenes were even shot on location in the United States at Sedona and the Grand Canyon in Arizona and at Death Valley in California.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Otto von Bismarck | Der Spiegel | Alexander von Humboldt | Der Rosenkavalier | Wernher von Braun | Carl Maria von Weber | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Rotenburg an der Fulda | Herbert von Karajan | Kaiser Chiefs | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher | John von Neumann | Spittal an der Drau | Lars von Trier | Limburg an der Lahn | Kaiser | Henry J. Kaiser | Ferdinand von Mueller | Weiden in der Oberpfalz | Paul von Hindenburg | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Heinrich von Kleist | Anne Sofie von Otter | Erich von Stroheim | Dillingen an der Donau | Van der Graaf Generator | Max von Sydow | Justus von Liebig | Kirchdorf an der Krems |