TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grana,Mari
TI  - On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey
SN  - 9781442247369
AV  - E664.D7 .G736 2015 
U1  - 328.73/092 B 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Globe Pequot Press, The
KW  - Dorsey, Stephen Wallace,-1842-1916
KW  - United States.-Congress.-Senate-Biography
KW  - Legislators-United States-Biography
KW  - Politicians-New Mexico-Biography
KW  - Landowners-New Mexico-Biography
KW  - Ranchers-New Mexico-Biography
KW  - New Mexico-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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