Granville P. Swift

Granville Perry Swift (May 1, 1821 in Lexington, Kentucky – April 21, 1875) was a California pioneer who participated in the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 and who was highly successful at gold mining.

During the rebellion of the Californios in 1844–45, Governor Manuel Micheltorena asked John Sutter to form a troop of riflemen, of which Swift was one.

After the discovery of gold at Sutter's Fort, Swift took a party to Bidwell's Bar in 1848 and struck it rich.

The list of his burial locations (in his handwriting) still survives, with notations like "1 tin box & 1 Little Bottle Boath in the saim hoal."

He was later unable to identify many of the hiding places; gold believed to have been Swift's has been found several times, including in 1914 by A.W.

He suffered serious financial losses in the so-called Comstock Swindle, forcing him to sell off his ranch and Temelec to pay his debts.