An rare broadside extra of the Sacramento Daily Union—the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi—detailing a gang murder, with the confessions and last words of the perpetrators and an account of the execution; this example unique in bearing an autograph letter, signed, by a Yuba County gold miner on.....
A rare broadside offering a reward for a partially-blind, mixed-race horse thief who escaped his initial arrest in Anderson, South Carolina three years after the Civil War. Issued by prominent Anderson, South Carolina horse-thief-catcher and future politician John R. Cochran, this broadside reads in full:I will pay the above reward.....
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An exceptionally rare and quintessential Wells, Fargo & Co. stagecoach holdup broadside, issued by the company’s office “at Kelton, Nevada” (i.e., Kelton, Utah) and printed in Salt Lake City. Wells Fargo agent H. M. Ellsworth advertises a reward of $750 for the arrest and conviction of robbers ($250 for each).....
A scarce and striking broadside, effectively two broadsides in one, published upon the execution of a trio of murderous brothers who were hanged in Buffalo, New York just a few months before the opening of the Erie Canal. Nelson, Israel, and Isaac Thayer—known in the small town of Boston, New.....