REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE WAR DEBT OF CALIFORNIA. Samuel B. Smith, War Bond Commissioner
by California. War Bond Commissioner, Samuel B. Smith
$375 · Offered by L. W. Currey
First edition
Sacramento: Benj. P. Avery, State Printer, 1863. 23.5x15 cm, pp. 1-3 4, original yellow printed wrappers. First edition. A report regarding the federal government's payment of California's claims for reimbursement for its Indian wars, 1854-1859. The brutal behavior of whites toward Indians reached the level of full-fledged military campaigns in the 1850s. This copy has an autograph letter from George Oulton 1831-1903,
- Binding: Wrappers
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