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Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 18471882

Autor Christopher Burchfield
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2016
In Gold Rush-era California, gunfighters werent outlaws or desperadoes -- they were were prominent journalists, legislators, governors, and judges. 'Choose Your Weapon' brings to life a now-forgotten time, when California was a raw new state with politics as violent as any banana republic. This was the Golden Age of dueling, when prominent citizens would settle their political and personal disputes with gunfire, according to the venerable law of the code duello. 'Choose Your Weapon' documents every notable duel to have occurred in California, from the arrival of U.S. dueling culture with the first American settlers to the end of duelings popularity on the eve of the Civil War. In the heyday of dueling culture, men from all walks of life, from politicians to manual laborers, fought formal duels. Duels could be triggered by political battles to shape state governmentor they could be fought over a woman or a personal slight. Braggarts often proved to be cowards on the field of honor, and many a quiet and peaceable man could shoot with deadly accuracy when reputation was at stake. For the California gentlemen of the 1850s, honor or dishonorand life or deathcould be decided with a single shot.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781610352772
ISBN-10: 1610352777
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 20 b/w period photos & portraits
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Linden Publishing
Colecția Linden Publishing

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"Careful detailing of the political realities and interactions of the period ... I will treasure this on my research shelf." David Lloyd Sutton, San Francisco Book Review

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