A.E. Wagstaff Life of David S. Terry 1892
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Author: Wagstaff, A.E., ed.
Title: Life of David S. Terry, Presenting an Authentic, Impartial, and Vivid History of His Eventful Life and Tragic Death
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Continental Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1892
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xvi, [15]-526 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph; 4 wood-engraved plates. (8vo) original dark green cloth stamped in blind and black, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. First Edition.
"Best biography of a violently eccentric Californian" - Howes. Terry (1823-1890) came to California from Texas in 1849, was elected to the state Supreme Court in 1855 and became Chief Justice in 1857, mortally wounded Senator David Broderick in a duel in 1859, fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, came back to California as a lawyer in 1869, married a client, struck U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field (occasioned by Field's determining the aforementioned client's documentation was false), and was gunned down by Field's bodyguard David Neagle. Cowan p.66; Howes W14.
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