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Shot down in a saloon... Founder of gold in California...



Item # 671596

September 22, 1884

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Sept. 22, 1884 

* James W. Marshall - California gold fame

This title always had a wealth of typically Western-themed reports as well as ads.
Page 2 has: "Slain In A Saloon" "A Grandson of Henry Clay Shot by a Louisville Alderman" "Shot Through the Heart--Drunken Ruffians--A Rancher Killed--A Texan Murderer Arrested in Georgia" as well as: "A Desperado Brought to Bay" "Murdered With an Ax".
Page 5 has: "Gold In California" "James Wilson Marshall, Who First Found Gold in California, and is Now a Poor Man, Living Near the Scene of His Great Discovery" with a print of him.
Twelve pages, very nice condition.

Category: The Old West