Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco

by Robert M. Senkewicz

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Senkewicz, Robert M. Vigilantes in Gold Rush San Francisco. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985. ix, 272 pp. Publisher's red cloth, fine in near fine dust jacket. Internally clean. 20. * A reexamination of the social, economic, and legal dynamics underlying the famous San Francisco Vigilance Committees of 1851 and 1856. Moving away from traditional romanticized narratives of frontier justice, Senkewicz analyzes how a powerful elite of merchants and

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