Author: Jack Kenny Williams
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890961933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This history of the social custom of pistol dueling in the antebellum South documents the rules for its conduct, its causes, and its typical participants. Also included is a popular dueling code from the year 1838 by John Lyde Wilson, one-time governer of South Carolina.--From publisher description.