History of the San Francisco Committee of vigilance of 1851 a study of social control on the California frontier in the days of the gold rush by Mary Floyd Williams Published in 1921, University of California Press (Berkeley, Calif) History of the San Francisco Committee of vigilance of 1851 Mary Floyd Williams Change Cover Read Online works: History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 By statement: by Mary Floyd Williams. Series: University of California publications in history -- v. 12 Source records: Internet Archive: historyofsanfran12will Internet Archive: historyofsanfran01will Library MARC record Internet Archive: cu31924009390299 Pagination: xii, 543 p. : LCCN: 21020547 Subject: Committee of Vigilance (San Francisco, Calif.) San Francisco (Calif.) — History

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	pt. 1. The California frontier, 1846-1851
	1. The Spanish inheritance and the American conquest
	2. Colonel Richard B. Mason, Military Governor
	3. EL Dorado
	4. Vox Populi in the mines of California
	5. The struggle for organization
	6. The fabrication of the commonwealth
	7. The failure to establish social control
	pt. 2. The San Francisco committee of vigilance of 1851
	8. The prelude to the committe of vigilance
	9. The organization of the committe of vigilance
	10. The committee at work
	11. The records for June
	12. James Stuart, outlaw
	13. On the trail of Stuart's companions
	14. Adventures in crime
	15. Politics and reorganization
	16. The closing months
	17. A summary of methods
	18. '51 to '77
	19. Lynch law as a national problem
	20. In retrospect.