CALIFORNIA ALCALDE by Stephen Johnson Field 1950 FOLDING COLOR MAP
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CALIFORNIA ALCALDE by Stephen Johnson Field 1950 FOLDING COLOR MAP:
$148.00
CALIFORNIA ALCALDE by Stephen Johnson Field 1950 FOLDING COLOR MAP CALIFORNIA ALCALDE by Stephen Johnson Field 1950 FOLDING COLOR MAP
AUTHOR: Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson), 1816-1899
PUBLISHER: Oakland: centennial edition, 21. First edition was privately printed under title: Personal reminiscences of early days in California.
DESCRIPTION: 174 pages portrait, folded color map 26 cm. CHAPTERS: Why and how I came to California -- First experiences in San Francisco -- Experiences as Alcalde -- The Turner Controversy -- Running for the legislature -- Life in the ligislature -- Friendship for David C. Broderick -- Legislation secured and beginning a new life -- The Barbour difficulty -- Removal from Marysville -- The career of Judge Field -- The annoyances of my judicial libe -- Hostility to the Supreme Court after the Civil War -- the Schofield resolution -- The Moulin vexation -- The Hastings malignity
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Covers bowed. Map has some extra creases. A few small pencil marks on back pastedown and rights page.
NOTES: Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816 – April 9, 1899) was an American jurist. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from March 10, 1863, to December 1, 1897. Prior to this, he was the 5th Chief Justice of California. In California, Field\'s legal practice boomed and he was elected alcalde, a form of mayor and justice of the peace under the old Mexican rule of law, of Marysville (curiously, he was elected Alcalde just three days after his arrival in Marysville). Because the Gold Rush city could not afford a jail, and it cost too much to transport prisoners to San Francisco, Field implemented the whipping post, believing that without such a brutal implement many in the rough and tumble city would be hanged for minor crimes. The voters sent him to the California State Assembly in 1850 to represent Yuba County, but he lost a race the next year for the State Senate. His successful legal practice led to his election to the California Supreme Court in 1857, serving six years
BINDING: Full red buckram and all edges marbled.
CALIFORNIA ALCALDE by Stephen Johnson Field 1950 FOLDING COLOR MAP:
$148.00