On the fringes of power : the life and turbulent career of Senator Stephen Wallace Dorsey /

"Touted in his time as one of the 'great men of the West, ' Stephen Wallace Dorsey was a Reconstruction carpetbagger who went to Arkansas and finagled and bribed his way into getting elected to the US Senate after living only two years in the state before heading West to seek his fort...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Graña, Mari, 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Helena, Montana : TwoDot, [2015]
Temas:
Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, > 1842-1916.
Dorsey, Stephen Wallace, > 1842-1916
United States. > Congress. > Senate > Biography.
États-Unis. > Congress. > Senate > Biographies.
United States. > Congress. > Senate
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislators
Politicians > New Mexico > Biography.
Landowners > New Mexico > Biography.
Ranchers > New Mexico > Biography.
New Mexico > Biography.
Nouveau-Mexique > Biographies.
New Mexico
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • New Mexico, 1877
  • The war, a railroad, and a seat in the Senate
  • Washington, 1873-1879
  • Congressional investigations
  • The presidential election of 1880
  • An unexpected president
  • Chico Springs and Washington : the Star Route trial
  • Back at the ranch
  • President Cleveland, Governor Ross, and the surveyor general
  • A changing West
  • New challenges : the Bessemer Consolidated Iron Company
  • A new life
  • Los Angeles, 1901-1916
  • A man of the times.

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