LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED SAN FRANCISCO VIGILANCE COMMITTEE NEWSPAPER.


The Wide West: Fourth of July Illustrated Edition. San Francisco: W.W. Kurtz & Co., July 4, 1856. 4 pp. Folio (725 x 540 mm). Illustrated throughout with copper plate engravings. Some offset, spotting, light thumbsoiling.Provenance: ownership signature of William P. Van Dyke of Santa Clara, CA to upper margin of p 1.SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED GOLD RUSH ERA NEWSPAPER. A special edition with much space devoted to the assassination of James King of William, a crusading San Francisco newspaper editor gunned down by James P. Casey, a member of the SF board of supervisors. The murder led to the establishment of the city's second vigilance committee. The illustrations here include a design for a momument to King, a view of the assassination and funeral procession, and "Delivery by the Authorities of Casey and Cora to the Vigilance Committee." The paper also includes views of San Juan del Sud, the town of Folsom, the Port of Manzanillo, Fort Vancouver and Columbia.