Christopher Burchfield

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Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847-1861Paperback, 1 October 2016

Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847-1861
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Print Length
260 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Craven Street Books
Date Published
1 Oct 2016
ISBN-10
1610352777
ISBN-13
9781610352772

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In Gold Rush-era California, gunfighters weren't outlaws or desperadoes -- they were were prominent journalists, legislators, governors, and judges. Choose Your Weapon brings to life a now-forgotten time, when California was a raw new state with politics as violent as any banana republic. This was the Golden Age of dueling, when prominent citizens would settle their political and personal disputes with gunfire, according to the venerable law of the code duello. Choose Your Weapon documents every notable duel to have occurred in California, from the arrival of U.S. dueling culture with the first American settlers to the end of dueling's popularity on the eve of the Civil War.

In the heyday of dueling culture, men from all walks of life, from politicians to manual laborers, fought formal duels. Duels could be triggered by political battles to shape state government--or they could be fought over a woman or a personal slight. Braggarts often proved to be cowards on the field of honor, and many a quiet and peaceable man could shoot with deadly accuracy when reputation was at stake. For the California gentlemen of the 1850s, honor or dishonor--and life or death--could be decided with a single shot.

Product Details

Author:
Christopher Burchfield
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 October 2016
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.4 cm
ISBN-10:
1610352777
ISBN-13:
9781610352772
Language:
English
Location:
Fresno
Pages:
260
Weight:
358.34 gm

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