On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey by Grana, Mari

On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781442247352)

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On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey by Grana, Mari

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

$16.95
On the Fringes of Power: The Life and Turbulent Career of Stephen Wallace Dorsey by Grana, Mari

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

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Mari Grana
ISBN-10: 1442247355
ISBN-13: 9781442247352
Publisher: Two Dot Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2015
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d
By Mari Grana
By Mari Grana
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In 1988 Mari Grana left a career as an urban planner in California and retreated to New Mexico to write. Her first book on New Mexico regional history, Begoso Cabin, won the 2000 Willa Cather award from Women Writing the West. She has also written about her grandmother's life as a physician in the Old West and about the extraordinary story of a woman politician in 19th century Utah. She works as a freelance writer and editor in Santa Fe.

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