[46] Baron Fairfax of Cameron in the Peerage of Scotland. Many stories are told of his adventures in California.
[47] Bayard Taylor, who visited the mining camps in the winter of ’49, found them well organized under the rule of an Alcalde. “Nothing in California,” he wrote, “seemed more miraculous to me than this spontaneous evolution of social order from the worst elements of anarchy.”
[48] William Grey, “Pioneer Times in California.”
[49] “Seeking the Golden Fleece.”
[50] Shucks, “Bench and Bar of California.”
[51] William Grey, “Pioneer Times in California.”
[52] S. J. Field, “Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California.”
[53] Journalistic affrays were frequent. See page [192] infra.
[54] C. W. Haskins, “The Argonauts of California.”
[55] “Emerson in Concord,” page 94.