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Personal Reminiscences Of Early Days In California, With Other Sketches

by Stephen Johnson Field


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Field, Stephen J[ohnson]. Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, with Other Sketches... To Which is added the Story of his Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Hon. George C. Gorman. [Washington, D.C.]: Printed for a Few Friends. Not Published, [1893]. vi, 406 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 00-067118. ISBN 1-58477-133-X. Cloth. $85.

* Field [1816-1899] was the draftsman of the 1851 California Practice Act and went on to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1863. Having emigrated to California from New York in 1849, the experiences of his adventures there, personal and professional (he was both disbarred and then elected to the state legislature), are recounted in his Reminiscences, which he dictated in his later years. ""The book evinces devotion to the fact and energy of purpose, as well as some appreciation of humorous situations."": Dictionary of American Biography III:373.

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