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Title

  • My own story.

Summary

  • Journalist Fremont Older (1856-1935), born in Appleton, Wisconsin, went to California in 1873 and became one of the state's most controversial newspapermen in his work at the San Francisco Call and Bulletin. My own story (1919) first tells Older's story as the editor of the struggling Bulletin in 1895. He provides fascinating details of his fight against political corruption in San Francisco in the next fifteen years, a chronicle of graft, labor violence, fraud, and rampant bribery centering on his fight against the Southern Pacific Railroad and its political "ring" and personal battles with Republican boss Abraham Ruef, Mayor Eugene Schmitz, and Patrick Calhoun, head of United Railroads.

Names

  • Older, Fremont, 1856-1935.

Created / Published

  • San Francisco, The Call publishing co., 1919.

Headings

  • -  San Francisco (Calif.)--Politics and government
  • -  Women--California
  • -  Law--Political aspects--California
  • -  Business--California

Medium

  • 197, [1] p. 23 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F869.S3 O4

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 19001807

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

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"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

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Chicago citation style:

Older, Fremont. My Own Story. San Francisco, The Call publishing co, 1919. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/19001807/.

APA citation style:

Older, F. (1919) My Own Story. San Francisco, The Call publishing co. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/19001807/.

MLA citation style:

Older, Fremont. My Own Story. San Francisco, The Call publishing co, 1919. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/19001807/>.