Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 753
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The collection contains letters and documents related to individuals making charges or giving information about suspects or prisoners to the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856. It also contains completed applications for membership, lists of members and members of the executive committee, and financial documents.
Author: San Francisco Committee of vigilance
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Category : Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Author: Doyce Blackman Nunis
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Author: Nancy J. Taniguchi
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an outspoken newspaperman, prompting a group of merchants to organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The committee, which met in secret, fed biased stories to the newspapers, depicting itself as a necessary substitute for incompetent law enforcement. But its actual purpose was quite different. In Dirty Deeds, historian Nancy J. Taniguchi draws on the 1856 Committee’s minutes—long lost until she unearthed them—to present the first clear picture of its actions and motivations. San Francisco’s real estate comprised a patchwork of land grants left from the Spanish and Mexican governments—grants that had been appropriated and sold over and over. Even after the establishment of a federal board in 1851 to settle the complicated California claims, land titles remained confused, and most of the land in the city belonged to no one. The acquisition of key waterfront properties in San Francisco by an ambitious politician motivated the thirty-odd merchants who called themselves “the Executives” of the Vigilance Committee to go directly after these parcels. Despite the organization’s assertion of working on behalf of law and order, its tactics—kidnapping, forced deportations, and even murder—went far beyond the bounds of law. For more than a century, scholars have accepted the vigilantes’ self-serving claims to honorable motives. Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.
Author: Helen Fawcett
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Author: Mary Floyd Williams
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330330166
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 567
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Excerpt from History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: A Study The Records for June; James Stuart, Outlaw; On the Trail op Stuart's Companions; Adventures in Crime; Politics and Reorganization; The Closing Months; A Summary op Methods; '51 To 77; Lynch Law as a National Problem; In Retrospect; Biographical Notes; Documentary Appendix; Bibliography;Index List Of Illustrations Medal op Committee of Vigilance of 1856; Portrait of William T. Coleman; Portrait of Samuel Brannan; Facsimile of Proclamation by Governor John McDougal Relative to the Committee of Vigilance of 1851 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages :
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Also letters, 1853-1855, to Edward McGowan, who was seized by the Committee.
Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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