Choose your weapon
Subtitle: the duel in California, 1847 to 1861
By: Christopher Burchfield
Publisher: Stairway Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Mt. Vernon, WA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780989760591
Subjects: Politics and government; Dueling; History
Other titles: Duel in California, 1847 to 1861
Description: Between 1847 and 1861 over seventy duels were fought in California, more than in all the other states combined during those years. The major figures, the causes, the manner in which the duels were fought are here described in graphic detail for the first time ever.
Notes: Originally published: Oroville, CA : I & L Pub., 2002.

"Because so many were fought over politics, the book reveals much about the major politicians and newspaper editors of that epoch"--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-254) and index.