Account of the causes and development of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856, [ca. 1856].

1 item ([20] p.) ; 38 x 11 cm.

English

Purchased from John Howell on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1971.

AM with corrections in an unidentifed hand describing the development of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856 and the circumstances leading up to the murder of James King, editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, and the subsequent hanging of his murderer James P. Casey by the vigilantes. The manuscript is bound with grommets on the top, and the number 124324 is stamped at the top of the first page and on the bottom of the last. Miscellaneous accounting notes appear on verso in pencil and ink.

June 01, 2002

Account of the Causes and Development of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Account of the Causes and Development of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.