[PDF] Dark And Tangled Threads Of Crime eBook

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781884995415

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He came to California with the great Gold Rush, but instead of riches, Isaiah W. Lees discovered his great talent for solving crimes and catching criminals. He captured stage robbers in Missouri, tracked con men to New York and caught the notorious eastern bank robber, Jimmy Hope in the middle of a San Francisco heist. San Francisco in the 1850's, was the gateway to the gold fields, a city filled with adventurers, outlaws, con men and desperadoes of every description. In 1853 Isaiah Lees was appointed the first Chief of Detectives on the new Police Force and during nearly fifty years he acquired an amazing record. An innovator of police methods, Lees easily eclipsed such legendary lawman as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp. When he retired as chief in 1900, the San Francisco Chronicle stated that ""in point of service, no one has ever equaled the record of Lees."" He was the right man, in the right place, at the right time, and this is his exciting, true story, told here for the first time.

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2006-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781884995514

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""California Badmen"" is a exploration of little-known Western frontier gunfighters. Billy Mulligan, Sam Temple, Peter Olsen, Joe Dye, Bob McFarlane and those responsible for the Rancheria killings are brought back through the pages and taking their stand in Californian history. The riotous lives of these unique collection of mean men with guns spill over the California frontier and rival the likes of ""Wild Bill"" Hickok, Billy the Kid, and the Earp Family.

Author : Amy K. DeFalco Lippert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,90 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0190268972

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Consuming Identities restores the California gold rush to its rightful place as the first pivotal chapter in the American history of photography, and uncovers nineteenth-century San Francisco's position in the vanguard of modern visual culture.

Author : James R. Smith
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781884995446

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With long-forgotten stories and evocative photographs, San Francisco's Lost Landmarks showcases the once-familiar sites that have faded into dim memories and hazy legends. Not just a list of places, facts, and dates, this pictorial history shows why San Francisco has been a legendary travel destination and one of the world's premier places to live and work for more than one hundred and fifty years. It not only tells of the lost landmarks, but also dishes up the flavour of what it was like to experience these past treasures.

Author : Stephen Blake Mettee
Publisher : Linden Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1610351126

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More than 45 agent, editor, and author-written chapters--called workshops in the book--provide instruction on the writing craft and the business of getting published.

Author : William B. Secrest
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781884995491

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First person accounts of the major catastrophies of 19th century California.

Author : Emily Poynton Weaver
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"The rainproof invention: or, Some tangled threads" is a romantic novel of humorous tones. It tells the story of a wealthy businessman and his dedicated, albeit, underpaid workers. James Norbury described himself as 'a self-made man', a title that most agreed he quite deserved. After all, he had himself worked in a factory for ten years, scraping and saving until he could start his own factory using a patent he had developed, then built it up to a successful venture. Not yet content with his current fortune, his latest business aspiration is to finish yet another patent for rainproof material. He hires a young man Mark Stanton, as a travelling salesman for his products. But it seems that Mark Stanton is doomed to follow in the path of every male worker at the factory, that is, to fall in love with Norbury's daughter...

Author : Charles F. Adams
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781884995460

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Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendour of its misdeeds -- murders that have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair. The homicides chronicled in Murder by the Bay have been selected because a convergence of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them peculiarly San Franciscan. Each of these crimes illustrates an historic importance, each has impacted its times -- either in the course or application of the law or in the manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society. They range from the Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St. Francis Hotel to the shocking "City Hall Murders" in which former city supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Most were solved, some were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.

Author : Harold J. Weiss (Jr.)
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574412604

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Captain Bill McDonald's (1852-1918) admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who precipitated violence, hungered for publicity, and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero's role. This title seeks to find the true Bill McDonald and sort fact from myth.