California
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‘Cold as a Hammer’: Gunfight at Myers’ Ravine
By Unknown author – http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-oldwest/Venard%20Gunfight.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12367272 Towards the end of April 1866, Samuel Henry of Moore’s Flat, California, was driving his wagon up Yuba Hill when he was stopped by two pistol-wielding robbers who ordered him down from his ‘sulky’. The two men carried out a systematic search of Henry’s wagon, finding only… Continue reading
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Judge George Gordon Belt and the Mason-Henry Gang
George Gordon Belt arrived in San Francisco on 7 March 1847, as part of Colonel Jonathan Drake Stevenson’s Seventh Regiment of New York Volunteers after enduring an arduous six-month voyage around Cape Horn. Stevenson’s force, 770 men strong, was to form part of the American army occupying California. The Mexican-American War had broken out the… Continue reading
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Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men 