The number of rapes increases. The TE editorializes that women should carry weapons and kill offenders. “There is no law against killing brutes in self-defense.” MTIVC pg 87 this is a story that is close to home for someone at the TE
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Joe Goodman and Tom Fitch duel again
They fight again at Ingraham’s Ranch in Stampede Valley where Goodman shot Fitch in the knee. MTIVC pg 84 over the border in CA
Sam goes to SF
He wined and dined as before, viewed Adah Isaacs Menken in her celebrated role stripping in Mazeppa – was unimpressed, and became such a social lion that the ladies of the Lick House gave him a complimentary ball. The affair was a great success, he said, honored by the presence of the army and navy, […]