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Author: John Byrne Cooke
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 9780553568691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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During the days of the Gold Rush in San Francisco, the shooting of a controversial journalist precipitates the return of the Committee of Vigilance--a citizen's group seeking revenge upon the town's criminal element. But when a ship's captain turns to the committee for justice, he finds himself caught in a maelstrom of violence.
Author: Nancy J. Taniguchi
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157054
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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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: John Byrne Cooke
Publisher: Domain
ISBN: 9780553568691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Book Description
During the days of the Gold Rush in San Francisco, the shooting of a controversial journalist precipitates the return of the Committee of Vigilance--a citizen's group seeking revenge upon the town's criminal element. But when a ship's captain turns to the committee for justice, he finds himself caught in a maelstrom of violence.
Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Author: Frank Meriweather Smith d. 1884
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: James O'Meara
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336833395X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Reproduction of the original.
Author: Mary Floyd Williams
Publisher: Berkeldy : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Author: San Francisco Committee of vigilance
Publisher:
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Category : Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Author: Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco
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Category : Vigilantes
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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