Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California

Résumé du livre

An important figure in California history, Field was alcalde of the Gold Rush town of Marysville from 1849 to 1850, a member of the California State Assembly from 1852 to 1853, and an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court beginning in 1863, remaining on the bench until 1897. Dictated in his later years "for a few friends," his Reminiscences provide vivid sketches of California during the boisterous early years of settlement. A second section, by his associate George C. Gorman, recounts an attempt on Field’s life in 1889 by David S. Terry, a former chief justice of California.