History of the San Francisco Committee of vigilance of 1851
Subtitle: a study of social control on the California frontier in the days of the gold rush
By: by Mary Floyd Williams.
Series: University of California publications in history -- v. 12
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1921
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
Subjects: Committee of Vigilance (San Francisco, Calif.); San Francisco (Calif.) -- History
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The California frontier, 1846-1851; title: 1. The Spanish inheritance and the American conquest; title: 2. Colonel Richard B. Mason, Military Governor; title: 3. EL Dorado; title: 4. Vox Populi in the mines of California; title: 5. The struggle for organization; title: 6. The fabrication of the commonwealth; title: 7. The failure to establish social control; title: pt. 2. The San Francisco committee of vigilance of 1851; title: 8. The prelude to the committe of vigilance; title: 9. The organization of the committe of vigilance; title: 10. The committee at work; title: 11. The records for June; title: 12. James Stuart, outlaw; title: 13. On the trail of Stuart's companions; title: 14. Adventures in crime; title: 15. Politics and reorganization; title: 16. The closing months; title: 17. A summary of methods; title: 18. '51 to '77; title: 19. Lynch law as a national problem; title: 20. In retrospect.