Committee of vigilance. revolution in San Francisco, 1851; an account of the hundred days when certain citizens undertook the suppression of the criminal activities of the Sydney ducks.
- Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1964
- 339 p.
1. Daring assault and robbery -- 2. Crime among us -- 3. A way to stop crime -- 4. The people in council -- 5. The day after the battle -- 6. City intelligence -- 7. Alarms of fire -- 8. Incendiarism and its agents : the remedy -- 9. Quousque abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? -- 10. Great excitement -- 11. Coroner's inquest on the body of a man called John Jenkins -- 12. The Vigilance Committee at work -- 13. Important arrest by the Vigilance Committee -- 14. Stuart alias Berdue convicted, the murder at Downieville -- 15. The case of James Stuart -- 16. Confession of his guilt! -- 17. The impending crisis -- 18. Intense excitement -- 19. Arrests by the Vigilance Committee -- 20. Assault with intent to kill -- 21. The governor and the Vigilance Committee -- 22. Arrest of Whittaker -- 23. The rescue of Whittaker and McKenzie -- 24. Governor McDougal's proclamation -- 25. A day of terror! -- 26. Quiet -- Postscript -- Retrospect.