On the Fringes of Power : The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey.
Grana, Mari.
On the Fringes of Power : The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (145 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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 fortune. From a fraudulent New Mexico land claim to taking up mining claims and real estate in Southern California, he used sheer cunning and guile to manipulate the system of the Gilded Age to his own ends.
9781442247369
Dorsey, Stephen Wallace,-1842-1916.
United States.-Congress.-Senate-Biography.
Legislators-United States-Biography.
Politicians-New Mexico-Biography.
Landowners-New Mexico-Biography.
Ranchers-New Mexico-Biography.
New Mexico-Biography.
Electronic books.
E664.D7 .G736 2015
328.73/092 B
On the Fringes of Power : The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (145 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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 fortune. From a fraudulent New Mexico land claim to taking up mining claims and real estate in Southern California, he used sheer cunning and guile to manipulate the system of the Gilded Age to his own ends.
9781442247369
Dorsey, Stephen Wallace,-1842-1916.
United States.-Congress.-Senate-Biography.
Legislators-United States-Biography.
Politicians-New Mexico-Biography.
Landowners-New Mexico-Biography.
Ranchers-New Mexico-Biography.
New Mexico-Biography.
Electronic books.
E664.D7 .G736 2015
328.73/092 B