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Paperback On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey Book

ISBN: 1442247355

ISBN13: 9781442247352

On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of 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 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...

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