Talk:Artifact Auction/@comment-5782071-20161104155504

It should be said that Vigenere never really created the titular cipher, but did create a modified version. I think. And Sutter was likely never one to dig for gold; while he tried to get as much land around the discovery of gold to himself as possible, he didn't want news to spread, and when the gold rush was published, he left and gave his business to his son. If anything, the Gold Rush might have hurt him.