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

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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

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Published in
Berkeley, Calif
Series
University of California publications in history -- v. 12

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Library of Congress
E173 .C15 vol. 12, F869.S3 W7

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Pagination
xii, 543 p. :
Number of pages
543

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL13497960M
Internet Archive
historyofsanfran12will
LCCN
21020547
OCLC/WorldCat
6495680

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OL141177W

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