A pioneer with a dark side

From the concursive cloth store to the generous fort: Johann August Sutter seemed to have done everything right. Wikimedia DMZ – HISTORICAL ¦ Rachel Huber ¦ From Western hero to racist colonialist: The view of the Swiss pioneer Johann August Sutter changed over the last decades. Johann August Sutter, the Swiss American emigrant and pioneer, stood for a long time on a censorship-heavy, incontrovertible hero base. Already in his lifetime he was fa…