After an initial fistfight at the California Exchange, the men encountered each other again, and Shannon attacked Touzalin with a bowie knife. Could you imagine walking into a what I assume is a bank to exchange things and getting into a fist fight, let alone dying soon after. Harsh times in the Wild West! Loved […]
Sentenced to hang for murdering a Chinese miner in 1856. One governor commutes his sentence in 1857 to life in prison. Two years later, the next governor pardons him if he'll leave the state for good. And that's far more justice than the lynched Native Americans got. It boggles the mind. There's a somewhat fanciful […]
i loved the March section. The part that got me was the following: “On January 11, 1858, March escaped from the Colusa jail. Remarkably, an order from newly inaugurated Governor John B. Weller arrived that same evening commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment. March had escaped only hours before learning that his life had […]
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