Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 375
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
JAMES KING MURDER AND THE COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE (CALIFORNIA.) The Wide West. Illustrated masthead and front-page illustration of funeral. 4 pages, 27 1/2 x 21 inches, on one sheet; moderate dampstaining. San Francisco, CA, 8 June 1856
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Features front-page coverage of the funeral of murdered newspaper editor James King, which took place at the same time that his murderer James Casey was being executed by the Committee of Vigilance. An editorial on the second page expresses the newspaper's support of the vigilantes: "Call the work our citizens are doing a revolution. . . . It is against criminals and their supporters that we are warring--and to them alone shall injury be done."
In addition, see the long article titled "Dialect of the Indian Tribes Kah-we-yah and Kah-so-wah," which gives long vocabulary lists that have apparently not been published elsewhere.