BRODERICK AND GWIN. THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY CONTEST FOR A SEAT IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES EVER KNOWN. A BRIEF HISTORY OF EARLY POLITICS IN CALIFORNIA. SKETCHES OF PROMINENT ACTORS IN THE SCENES, AND AN UNBIASED ACCOUNT OF THE FATAL DUEL BETWEEN BRODERICK AND JUDGE TERRY, TOGETHER WITH THE DEATH OF SENATOR BRODERICK.
San Francisco: Bacon & Company, 1881. Original printed front wrapper [worn, wrapper lettering faded], later plain rear wrapper. ix, [1 blank], 254 pp. A clean and Very Good text.
"The best and most graphic account of this remarkable state of affairs which for a decade engaged the most able leaders of all parties, with a vivid picture of the accompanying strenuous events." Cowan. "This is a history of the nine eventful years after 1850. The struggle between the North and the South for the control of California was most bitter. Even O'Meara, a trained newspaper man personally acquainted with the public men of the period, cannot be entirely impartial, and shows his sympathies with Judge Terry and the southerners. An able and striking book in a difficult field." Larned.
FIRST EDITION. Howes O83. 105 Eberstadt 65. Cowan, CA and the Pacific West 165. Larned 2061. Item #27610
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