Tag: statehood

• The Broderick-Terry duel of 1859, the last notable duel in California.

  

  The duel between US Senator David Broderick and David Terry, former Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court is a rollicking tale of friendship-turned-feud; politics, pistols, slavery and slander. Their duel on 13 September 1859 would have made a terrific historical novel or movie and still might. Duels over political disagreements, personal enmity and often…

  CrimeScribe

  September 13, 2020

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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• On This Day in 1851 – Josefa ‘Juanita’ Segovia, rough justice or legal lynching?

  

    Present-day California is often seen as the most liberal, tolerant state in the Union. It‘s sold with images of sunshine, surfing, and hippies; a relaxed, easy-going kind of place where, within reason, anything goes. This is a fallacy. While 1967 might have been California’s ‘Summer of Love’ July of 1851 wasn’t. Certainly not for…

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  July 5, 2020

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