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Between Two Empires. The Life Story of California's First Senator, William McKendree Gwin. Hardcover - 1969

by Thomas, Lately

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. xiv, 399pp. Bibliography and index. Grey cloth. Small oval bookplate. A very fine copy with dust jacket. An excellent biography of Gwin who became California's first Senator in 1850 and remained in office for eleven years. Covers the political warfare of the new state of California, the conflict between Gwin and Broderick, and the Terry-Broderick duel; the luxurious society of ante-bellum Washington, Gwin's failed venture in Mexico, etc..
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