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Violence, Property, and State Making in California. A stabbing in San Francisco, 1856. Gold rush society, 1848. “Panning” with spoon and shovel. Black and white miners work a long tom system. Hydraulic mining. Large “placer” mining operation.
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“Execution of Jose Forner for the Murder of Jose Rodrigues,” San Francisco, 1852