In this pencil sketch, made around 1849, we see a man not yet 40 but already haunted by the notoriety that would bring him fame while denying him any possibility of fortune. The tremendous tidal wave begun by his discovery rolled over Marshall and destroyed him as surely as it did Captain John Sutter. In "El Dorado County Historic Places of Interest, Myths, & Legends," you'll meet the man who came to build the mill, and the man he became when his world was forever lost to the glittering madness of the gold rush.