Trespassers at the Golden Gate : a true account of love, murder, and madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco / Gary Krist.
"Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. The woman fired a single bullet into his chest. "I did it and I don't deny it," she said when arrested shortly thereafter. "He ruined both myself and my daughter." Though little remembered today, the trial of Laura D. Fair for the murder of her lover, A. P. Crittenden, made headlines nationwide. As bestselling author Gary Krist reveals, the operatic facts of the case--a woman strung along for years by a two-timing man, killing him in an alleged fit of madness--challenged an American populace still searching for moral consensus after the Civil War. The trial shone an early and uncomfortable spotlight on social issues like the role of women, the sanctity of the family, and the range of acceptable expressions of gender, while jolting the still-adolescent metropolis of 1870s San Francisco, a city eager to shed its rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era reputation."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593444214
- ISBN: 0593444213
- ISBN: 9780593444238
- ISBN: 059344423X
- Physical Description: xx, 376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Crown, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Map on lining papers.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-360) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A Restless Man -- A Town of Mud and Gold -- Setbacks -- No Place for a Lady -- Assorted Insurrections -- An Ungovernable Woman -- Blue, Gray, and Silver -- The Fortunes of War -- The Silver Magnet -- Love in Bloom -- Provocateurs -- Living Dangerously -- The War After the War -- A City on the Move -- Broken Promises -- Bicoastal Relationships -- Wife vs. Wife -- A Splendid Ruin -- A Threat -- The Restless Ghost -- The Great Man Honored -- Dueling Cliches -- A Female Hercules -- Neither Saint Nor Demon -- The Lady Triumphs
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 979.46 KRI (Text) | 37810435835649 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
