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Parsons, George Frederic. Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall, the Discoverer of Gold in California. Sacramento, 1870.
Patterson, Lawson B. Twelve Fears in the Mines of California. Cambridge [Mass.], 1862.
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Peckham, R[obert] F. Eventful Life. Scrapbook in the Bancroft Library. Extracts from the San Jose Pioneer, June 9. August 4, 1877.
Pérez Rosales, Vicente. Recuerdos del pasado, 1814-1860. Santiago de Chili, 1910. (Biblioteca de escritores de Chili, III.)
Phelps, Alonzo. Contemporary Biography of California's Representative Men. . . . . San Francisco, 1881-1882. 2 vols.
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Richman, Irving Berdine. California under Spoin and Mexico, 1535-1847. Boston, 1911.
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Robertson, James R[ood]. From Alcalde to Mayor; a History of the Change from the Mexican to the American Local Institutions of Cali- fornia, 1908. 293 pp. MS Thesis (Ph.D.), University of California Library.
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Royce, Josialı. California, from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigil- ance Committee in San Francisco .. Boston, 1886. (American Commonwealths.)
Royce, Josiah. "Provincialism; Based upon a Study of Early Conditions in California, " Putnam's Magazine, VII, 232-240 (November, 1909).
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Shuck, Oscar T[ully ]. Bench and Bar in California. .... San Francisco, 1888. Citations from enlarged ed., San Francisco, 1889.
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Entirely different from his Bench and Bar in California.
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[Shuck, Oscar Tully, editor.] Sketches of Leading and Representative Men of San Francisco. London, New York and San Francisco, 1875.
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Tinkham, George H[enry]. California Men and Events 1769-1890. Stockton, 1915.
Very inaccurate.
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Tuthill, Franklin. History of California. San Francisco, 1866.
Tyler, Daniel. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War. . .. . [Salt Lake City ], 1881.
Upham, Samuel C. Notes of a Voyage to California. . . . . Philadelphia, 1878. Cover title: Scenes in El Dorado in the Years 1849-'50.
Wagstaff, A[lexander], E., compiler and editor. Life of David S. Terry. . San Francisco, 1892.
Waite, E. G. "Pioneer Mining in California, " Century Magazine, XLII, 127-141 (May, 1891).
Wakeman, Edgar. The Log of an Ancient Mariner. . . Written by himself and edited by his daughter. San Francisco, 1878.
Webster, Kimball. The Gold Scekers of '49. . . .. With an Introduction . . by George Waldo Browne. Manchester, N. H., 1917. Journal and reminiscences, 1849-1854.
Wheeler, Alfred. "Oration," in Society of California Pioneers, Thirty- second Anniversary (San Francisco, 1882), 7-28.
[White, William Francis. ] 1 Picture of Pioncer Times in California. . by William Grey [pseudonym]. San Francisco, 1881.
Willey, Rev. Samuel Hopkins]. The Transition Period of California, from a Province of Mexico in 1846 to a State of the American Union in, 1850. San Francisco, 1901.
Willey, Rev. Samuel H[opkins]. "Recollections of General Halleck as Secretary of State in Monterey, 1847-9," Overland Monthly, IX, 9-17 (July, 1872).
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Wistar, Isaac Jones. Autobiography, 1827-1905. Philadelphia, 1914. 2 vols.
Printed for private distribution. University of California Library.
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Yale, Gregory. Legal Titles to Mining Claims and Water Rights, in Cali- fornia, under the Mining Law of Congress, of July, 1866. San Fran- cisco, 1867.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO COMMITTEES OF VIGILANCE, 1851, 1856 ARCHIVES OF THE COMMITTEE OF 1851, IN THE BANCROFT LIBRARY
Constitution and List of Signers. Book of Names, Kept by the Sergeant-at- arms. Printed as Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. I. Edited by Porter Garnett. Berkeley, 1910. 69 pp. (Academy of Pacific Coast History, Publications, I, no. 7.)
List of Names Approved by the Committee on Qualification. Printed as Papers, II. Edited by Porter Garnett. Berkeley, 1911. 19 pp. (Academy of Pacific Coast History, Publications, II, no. 2.)
Minutes and Miscellaneous Papers. Printed as Papers, III. Edited by Mary Floyd Williams. Berkeley, 1919. 905 pp. (Academy of Pacific Coast History, Publications, IV.) Cited as Papers.
Coutents: Minute Book of the Executive Committee, September 17, 1851, to June 30, 1852. Cash Book of the Treasurer, July 1, 1851, to October 17, 1852. Roll Call of the Executive Committee, Sep- tember 17, 1851, to March 13, 1852. Miscellaneous Minutes, Re- ports, Evidence, and Confessions. Financial Accounts and Vouchers. Unprinted : Book of Fincs of the Sergeant-at-Arms. Petty Cash Book of the Sergeant-at-Arms (fragment). Miscellaneous papers. (See Papers, III, 830-831.)
ARCHIVES OF THE COMMITTEE OF 1856
Both Bancroft and Hittell had access to the original archives of the Committee of 1856, but Bancroft was not allowed to retain them, and in 1914 he was unaware of their location. Correspondence with relatives of President Coleman and Secretary Bluxome has also failed to trace the documents. A number of the papers were obtained by Mr. A. S. Macdonald from a sealed room in a building in course of destruction in San Francisco's Chinatown, and were included in the Macdouald collection of Californiana purchased by Mr. Henry E. Huntington. The most interesting item is an Index to the Record of the Committee, made out under names of cases and witnesses, but the Record itself is missing. There are also unimportant papers relating to the cases of Judge Terry and Edward McGowan, some communications on ballot box stuffing, fragments of muster rolls, various subscription lists, vouchers, orders for membership certificates, and many complaints against the character of witnesses, and against men who had been admitted to membership in the Committee. The complaints show that vigorous efforts were made to expel undesirable members as fast as they could be discovered. A few letters relating to the Committee of 1856 are preserved in the Bancroft Library in the file that contains the papers of 1851. It is probable that the rest of the Archives were destroyed in the fire of 1906.
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MANUSCRIPT STATEMENTS OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEES IN THE BANCROFT LIBRARY
Bluxome, Isaac, Jr., "33 Secretary." Statement. [1877?] 20 pp. Cole, Dr. R. Beverly. Statement on Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. 1877. 22 pp. (1856 only.)
Coleman, William T[ell]. Statement. [1877?]. 174 pp.
Coon, H[enry] P., M.D. Annals of San Francisco. [1877?]. 31 pp. (1856 only.)
Crary, Oliver B. Statement on Vigilance Committees in San Francisco. 1877. 12 pp. (1856 only.)
Dempster, CElancey] J. Vigilance Committee. [1877?]. 59 pp. (1856 only.)
Dows, James. Statement on Vigilance Committes in San Francisco. 1877. 12 pp.
Durkee, John L. Statement on Vigilance Committee in San Francisco. 8 pp. (1836 only.)
Farwell, James D. Vigilance Committees in San Francisco. 1878. 24 pp. Frink, George W. Statement. Vigilance Committce. [1877?] 28 pp. (1856 only.)
Gillespie, Charles V. Vigilance Committee. 1875. 10 pp. (Chiefly 1856.) Manrow, John P[oole]. Statement on Vigilance Committees in San Fran- eiseo. 1878. 12 pp.
Neall, James, Jr. Statement. Vigilance Committee. [1877?]. 28 pp.
(1851 only.)
Olney, James N. Statement. Vigilance Committee. [1877?]. 36 pp. (1856 only.)
Ryckman, Gerritt W. Statement. Vigilance Committee. [1877?] 20 pp. (Chiefly 1851.)
Schenck, George E[verett]. Statement on the Vigilance Committee, 1856. 1877. 59 pp. (1851 and 1856.)
Smiley, Thomas J[ohn] L[ond]. Statement on Vigilance Committees and Early Times in San Francisco. 1877. 24 pp.
Truett, Miers F. Statement on Vigilance Committees in San Francisco. 1871. 8 pp. (1856 only.)
Watkins, William B. Statement. Vigilance Committees in San Francisco. 1878. 24 pp. (1856 only.)
Vigilance Committees in San Francisco-Miscellany. 1877. 39 pp. State- ments by Aaron M. Burns, J. D. B. Stillman, William H. Rogers, Hall MeAllister, Sylvester Woodbridge, James C. L. Wadsworth, Asa M. Bowen, A. M. Comstock.
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PRINTED ACCOUNTS OF THE COMMITTEES*
Ayres, W. O. "Personal Recollections of the Vigilance Committee," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, VIII, 160-176 (August, 1886). C. of V., 1856.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Popular Tribunals. San Francisco, 1877. 2 vols. (Works, XXXVI, XXXVII.)
The original editiou gave such offense to some Californians that it was withdrawn, and another printed the same year, with modifications in the personal comments. Citations from ed. 2.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. Chronicles of the Builders, I, 335-387.
Barbour, C. "Two Vigilance Committees," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, X, 285-291 (September, 1887). Committee of '56 and Committee of Montana.
Brierly, Rev. B. Thoughts for the Crisis : a Discourse Delivered in the Wash- ington St. Baptist Church, San Francisco, Cal., on the Sabbath Fol- lowing the Assassination of James King of W'm. by James P. Casey. San Francisco, 1856. 20 pp.
Carpenter, W. W. Letter describing Stephen Payran's work in 1851, Oak- land Transcript, 1874, March 29 11. California State Library.
Carroll, W. [i.e., Conrad Wiegand]. Dr. Scott, the Vigilance Committee and the Church. A Lecture . .. . Delivered in Musical Hall, San Francisco, Oct. 12, 1856. San Francisco, 1856. 52 pp.
By a purported friend of the Committee. Too incoherent to be of value. Another item by Wiegand is listed on p. 507.
Cary, Thomas G[reaves]. "The First San Francisco Vigilance Com- mittee," International Review, XI, 78-88 (July, 1881).
Cary, Thomas G[reaves]. "The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance," Atlantic Monthly, XL, 702-709 (December, 1877). C. of V., 1856.
Cary, Thomas Greaves. The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, 1851: The Chinese in California: Clipper Ships and the China Trade. No date. 80 pp. MS in Harvard University Library.
The "City Guard." A History of Company "B," First Regiment Infantry, N.G.C., 1854-1896. San Francisco, 1895. Cowan collection. Material relating to the Committee of 1856 is given, pp. 224-228.
Coleman, William T[ell]. "San Francisco Vigilance Committees. By the Chairman of the Committees of 1851[?], 1856, and 1877," Century Magazine, XLIII, 133-150 (November, 1891).
See also his reminiscences in San Francisco Call, 1884, April 14 1/1-3.
* No attempt has been made to list the many accounts of the Committees that occur in works of wider scope.
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Constitution and Address [ sic] of the Committee of Vigilance of San Fran- cisco. San Francisco, 1856. 8 pp. Huntington Library. Also in Hutchings' California Magazine, I, 15-16, 38-41 (July, 1856).
Drury, P. Sheldon. The Startling and Thrilling Narrative of the Dark and Terrible Deeds of Henry Madison, and His Associate and Accomplice, Miss Ellen Stevens, Who Was Executed by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, on the 20th September Last. Cincinnati, [1857]. No such execution took place. Collection of R. E. Cowan (see his Bibliography, 73).
Estell, Gen. James M. Speech .. Delivered in the House of Represent- atives, Sacramento City, Cal., . .. . in Connection with the Vigilance Committee. No date, 1857. 13 pp.
A vituperative attack upon the personnel of the Committee of 1856.
Evans, M. Discourse Pronounced by Rev. M. Evans, at the Funeral Obsequies of James King of William, in Grass Valley, Cal., May 22, 1856. "Fiat Justitia Ruat Coelum." Grass Valley, 1856. 17 pp. Collection of R. E. Cowan.
[Fargo, Frank F.] A True and Minute History of the Assassination of James King of W'm. and the Execution of Casey and Cora. San Fran- cisco [1856]. 24 pp.
Compiled from articles in the Alta written by Fargo.
"Fort Gunnybags, the Old Stronghold of the Vigilance Committee. Shall It be Marked?"' Overland Monthly, ser. 2, XXXI, 73-77 (January, 1898).
"Fort Gunnybags . ... " Overland Monthly, ser. 2, LXXII, 574-581 (December, 1918).
Gray, Henry M., see Judges and Criminals.
Green, Alfred A. Life and Adventures of a 47-er in California. 1878. 86 pp. MS in the Bancroft Library. The author was under arrest by the Committee of 1856.
Hallidie, A. S. "William T. Coleman," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, XXIII, 71-75 (January, 1894).
Hunt, Rockwell D[ennis]. "The Committees of Vigilance of California," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, XLIX, 31-39 (January, 1907).
Hunt, T[imothy] Dwight. Sermon Suggested by the Execution of Jenkins in the Placa by "the People" of San Francisco during the Night of the 10th of June, 1851. San Francisco, 1851. 26 pp.
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Judges and Criminals : Shadows of the Past. History of the Vigilance Com- mittee of San Francisco, Cal. With the Names of its Officers. San Francisco, 1858. 100 pp.
Ascribed to Henry M. Gray (see Cowan, Bibliography, 124). Opposed to the Committee of 1856. Note similarity of title with that of the sketches by R. F. Ryan, supra, p. 490.
King, Charles J. "Reminiscences of Early Days in San Francisco," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, XI, 275-283 (March, 1888).
The Committee of 1856. By a son of James King of William. See also his contribution to Irvine, History of the New California, I, 83-101.
King, Joseph L. "The Vigilance Committee of '56," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, LXVIII, 509-520 (December, 1916).
By a son of James King of William.
Lockwood, R[ufus] A. The Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, Metcalf vs. Argenti et al. Speeches of R. A. Lockwood, Esq. San Francisco, 1832. 48 pp. Ed. 1, 1851, see supra, p. 330 note 25.
McGowan, Edward. Narrative . ... Including a Full Account of the Author's Adventures and Perils, while Persecuted by the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856. San Francisco, 1857.
"Edward McGowan's Abenteuer, " in German, appears in Wentzel & Huefner's San Francisco Kalender, 1877, pp. 1-25.
[O'Meara, James.] The Vigilance Committee of 1856. By a Pioneer Cali- fornia Journalist. San Francisco, 1887. 57 pp.
The cover title is dated 1890. Opposed to the Committee. See also his contribution to Irvine, History of the New California, I, 102-199. O'Meara, James. "Admiral Farragut," San Francisco Chronicle, 1881, July 10 1/1-2.
Reports a conference with a committee from the C. of V. of 1856.
Paul, Almarin B. "The Vigilance Committee of '56," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, XXIV, 433-441; 529-542; 622-634 (October-December, 1891). The Phoenix. A weekly anti-Vigilante sheet, published by Edward Me- Gowan in Sacramento, August 30, 1857, to February 14, 1858. Its attacks were so indecent that newsboys were arrested for selling it in San Francisco, and to evade suppression the title was changed to Ubiquitous, under which it appeared from February 21 to June 20, 1858.
Pierce, Franklin. Message. August 6, 1856. 30 pp. (Cong. Docs., Ser. No. 824, Doc. 101.)
With correspondence relating to the "self-styled Vigilance Committee in California. "
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Rivors, - . A Full and Authentic Account of the Murder of James King of W'm., Dr. Randall, Dr. Baldwin, West and Marion. The Execution of James P. Cascy, Charles Cora, Philander Brace, and Joseph Hcther- ington, by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco. . .. . Written by Rivors. Published by E. Darrow & Brother, Rochester, 1857. 64 pp.
Collection of H. R. Wagner. Chiefly reprints of newspaper accounts. The first fifty pages closely follow Fargo's True and Minute History.
Scott, Rev. [William Anderson]. A Discourse for the Times. Delivered in Calvary Church, Sunday, July 27, 1856. Education, and Not Pun- ishment, the Truc Remedy for the Wrong-Doings and Disorders of Society. San Francisco, 1856. 8 pp.
In opposition to the Committee of Vigilance, although the organization was not directly mentioned.
Sherman, William T[ecumseh]. "Sherman and the San Francisco Vigi- lantes. Unpublished Letters . . ."' Century Magazine, XLIII, 296- 309 (December, 1891).
Sherman, William T[ecumseh]. "The Vigilance Committee of 1856," Over- land Monthly, XII, 105-116 (February, 1874).
Correspondence between the Committee and General Sherman, who opposed the organization. Reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle, 1874, January 23 31-4.
Smith, Frank Meriweather, editor. San Francisco Vigilance Committee of '56, with Some Interesting Sketches of Events Succceding 1846. San Francisco, 1883. 83 pp.
Friendly to the Committees of 1851 and 1856.
Soulé, Gihon and Nisbet, "The Vigilance Committee," in their Annals of San Francisco, (San Francisco, 1855), pp. 562-687.
Texas Legislature. Resolution in relation to the restriction of the supremacy of the law in California, and in securing to Judge Terry a fair trial. 1 p. (Cong. Docs., Ser. No. 835, Doc. 1.)
Trial of David S. Terry by the Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1856. 75 pp.
Transcript of the evidence. No comments.
United States. War Department. Report .... in relation to the proceed- ings of the Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, California. 29 pp. (Cong. Docs., Ser. No. 881, Doe. 43.)
Weed, Joseph. "Vigilance Committees of San Francisco," Overland Monthly, XII, 350-357 (April, 1874).
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Wheeler, C. B. Speech Delivered at the Sophomore Prize Debate of the Brothers in Unity of Yale College, January 14, 1857. . ... Was the Formation of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee Jutifiable? 8 pp.
Collection of H. R. Wagner. Title page wanting.
The Wide West, June and October, 1856. Illustrations of scenes of 1856. Wiegand, Conrad. To the People of San Francisco and California as Citi- zens of the United States. [San Francisco, 1856.] 8 pp.
Relates to the Committee of Vigilance. Collection of R. E. Cowan. See also entry under Carroll, W., p. 503.
Willey, Rev. S[amuel] H[opkins]. "Personal Recollections of the Vigilance Committee," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, VIII, 330-331 (September, 1886.)
Woolley, Lell Hawley. "Pioneer Experiences in California," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, LXIX, 66-78 (January, 1917).
Zabriskie, James C. Reply of James C. Zabriskie to a Committee of Citizens of Sacramento, in Reference to the Vigilance Committee and Democ- racy. Sacramento, 1856. 8 pp.
Collection of H. R. Wagner. Approves the Committee.
Clippings from the contemporary papers on the Committee of 1851 were collected by Bancroft, and they are filed with the archives. Clip- pings on the Committee of 1856 were collected in a scrapbook made by Thomas B. Robinson, now in the Bancroft Library.
An interesting collection of pictorial letterheads, including illus- trations of executions by both Committees, is preserve in the Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park.
COMMITTEES OF VIGILANCE ELSEWHERE THAN IN SAN FRANCISCO
CALIFORNIA, SHASTA COUNTY. Turner, William M. "How We Did It on Scott's Bar," Overland Monthly, XIV, 377-381 (April, 1875).
CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES. Committee of Vigilance, 1836. 13 pp. Vigi- lantes de Los Angeles . . . . 1836. 11 pp.
Two undated MSS in the Bancroft Library, describing the trial and execution of Gervacio Alipas and Rosario Villa for the murder of the latter's husband. The Spanish MS is probably by Victor Prudon, president of the tribunal.
CALIFORNIA, MARYSVILLE. Marysville Vigilance Committee. Minutes of the Vigilance Committee of Marysville. MS volume of 19 pp. in the Public Library of Marysville.
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CALIFORNIA, SONORA. Layton, Grovenor I. Two Years in the Life of the Felon, Grovenor I. Layton, Who was Lynched by the Vigilance Com- mittee at Sonora . . . . June 17, 1852. New Orleans, 1852. 40 pp. (See Cowan, Bibliography, 137.)
IOWA. Jackson County Historical Society, Annals, I-IV, 1905-1907 (see supra, p. 416 note 26.)
KANSAS. Kansas State Historical Society, Transactions, X-XIII, 1907- 1914 (see supra, p. 420 note 32).
LOUISIANA. Barde, Alexandre. Histoire des Comités de Vigilance aux Attakapas. Saint-Jean-Baptiste (La.), 1861.
Griffin, H. L. "The Vigilance Committees of the Attakapas Country
. . . . " Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Proceedings, VIII (1914-1915), 146-159. A review of Barde.
MONTANA AND VICINITY. Dinsdale, Thomas J. The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains. . . .. Virginia City, 1866. Ed. 3; Butte, 1915.
Langford, Nathaniel Pitt. Vigilante Days and Ways; the Pioneers of the Rockies. Boston, 1890. 2 vols. New ed. Chicago, 1912. 1 vol. Montana Historical Society. Contributions, II-VIII, 1896-1917 (see supra, p. 419 notes 30-31).
OREGON. Turner, William M. "Pioneer Justice in Oregon," Overland Monthly, XII, 224-230 (March, 1874).
See also infra, under J. E. Cutler; George Kennan; J. C. Lester; T. M. Marquett; L. E. Munson; J. E. Parker; W. Y. Pemberton; G. F. Shafer; W. J. Trimble.
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS
GENERAL AUTHORITIES
Alden, George Henry. New Governments West of the Alleghanies before 1780. . . .. Madison, 1897. (Bulletin of the University of Wis- consin. Historical Series, II, no. 1.)
Alden, George Henry. "The State of Franklin," American Historical Review, VIII, 271-289 (January, 1903).
American Association of Law Libraries. Inder to Legal Periodicals. Chicago, 1908 to date.
Ashe, Samuel A'Court. History of North Carolina. Vol. I. Greensboro, N. C., 1908.
Avery, Elroy McKendree. A History of the United States and Its People, from Their Earliest Records to the Present Time. Cleveland, 1904- 1910. 7 vols. Index. Tarrytown, N. Y., 1915.
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