Author: Butler David Aka Major Bolin
Title: Narratie Life & Adventures of Major C. Bolin
Description: Lewis Osborne, 1966. Unstated. Hardcover. Narrative Life and Adventures of Major C. Bolin Alias David Butler Lewis Osborne, 1966, unstated edition Hardback in good condition with good paper cover. Text is clean and unmarked binding tight. Cloth cover is clean with gold embossing, classic laid paper cover is also clean, maps inside front and back covers of Nevada and California. Butler an Ohio Argonaut in 1853 became a gambler in the California mining camps of the day. Major Bolin was his real name not a military title but David Butler became him, the gambler and epitomized the wayward emigrants of whom California made rich and many of whom became desperadoes, thieves ending up on the front pages of the early news papers. This is the story of one such man and the case of The People vs. David Butler which ended in Butler being hung. Also enclosed is a facsimile of the Nevada Democrat for March 3, 1858. B&W illustrations, 87 pages. Good.

Keywords: GOLD RUSH, CALIFORNIA HISTORY


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