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[10], 240 pp. Plates from wood engravings; facsimiles of original title-page & front wrapper. 20.3x12.3 cm (8x5"), original boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. No. 34 of 200 copies. Second Edition.

First published in 1857, described in The Zamorano Eighty as "one of the rare pieces of Californiana...published in pamphlet form by `Ned' McGowan, one-time justice of the peace in San Francisco, and an ex-convict from Pennsylvania, as a vindication of his conduct in absconding after being accused of complicity in the murder of James King of William...." Adams says that this edition is "line for line, page for page from the original edition complete with reproductions, in facsimile, of the original illustrations, cover-page title and title page" and calls it scarce. Adams Six-guns 1408; Cowan p.407; Howes M103; Zamorano Eighty 54 (note).