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1848-1865: Gold Rush Era > Murder and Mayhem

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Title: Shipment of the prisoners... by the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco [California] at two o'clock A.M. June 5th, 1856
Creator/Contributor: Boyd, T. C. (active ca. 1870), engraver Noisy Carrier's Book and Stationary Co. (Ch. P. Kimball) (active ca. 1851-ca. 1856), publisher
Date: 1856
Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

These images of crime, revenge, and drug dens show why California was often called part of the "Wild West." With few actual law officers or courts to enforce the law, many people took it upon themselves to impose their own varying ideas of justice.

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