The Saga of Henry Plummer Book 1 by Sven Skaar (PH 3-1) (1959) (97 pages)

“You should talk, keep your own nose clean. I suppose nobody's, talkin’ about you and the Vedder! woman.” , . “Bosh! She’s only an immigrant straight from the potato farms of Germany. She amuses me.” “I bet it don’t amuse her hus-} band.” . “John Vedder's another aquane:. head; he knows nothin’.’’ “But the psalm-singers do, and they’re gettin’ stronger every day. You ain't runnin’ the town yet, you know.” “Give me time, Bill; give me time. They don’t worry me a bit!” {Plumer rose and put on his hat. At the door he stopped and turned to Mayfield. “I intended to tell you. to watch the new 21 dealer. If he knocks down on the take let me know and I'll frame him for the court house gallows. And don’t forget to water down the last shipment of brandy.” Plumer snickered amiably at his partner and when Mayfield winked conspiratorily at him, he knew the man’s anger had passed. He accepted the reprimand. Mayfield was still in the palm of his hand. Worried About Friends The elections of 1857 promised a rough go both for Henry Plumer and the Chivalry wing of the Democratic party and yet he did not seem too concerned over the outcome. It was the disasters that had befallen -his outlaw ifriends that upset him. Tom Bell, \George Skinner, Mexican Frank ‘were dead; Cy, Big Dolph, Rom ero, Irish Carter in prison; and Rattlesnake Dick in hiding! Many a time Plumer had weighed the chances of organiz-. iNo, he must bide his tim e! Sooner or later Rattlesna ke Dick Barter would return, and then the two of them would work together, Dick knew the possibilitie s Neyada City held. The Wel ls Banker Birdseye, Isaac Fargo Witham: Son, Phillip & Mackie were all shi s ppi a ng e gold. Ratt] esnake xe wou W ld! ‘Plumer Again ds Nominated For Assembly ‘The Nevada County politicians jearned nothing from ,the San, Francisco’ Vigiliance Committee of 1856. It did not faze them that’ among the several murderers the vigilantes had hanged were a supervisor and a prominent gambler; that. the fire chief, the Sheriff: and his deputies the city marshal and_ his officers, the keeper of the county jail and a judge had been banished from California; and that a ,ustice of. -the State Supreme. Court had been ‘arrested and held by the committee pending the recovery of the man, whom the judge had stabbed with a bowie knife. Had he died, the judge would have pbeen-hanged as the other murdre erers were. The best proof that nothing had been learned came when the: Nevada County Democratic Party met in Nevada City Aug. 15, 1857 and made public. their ticket to be voted for in the election on aoe Sept. 9. Re _ Plumer Chosen “Of. the five assemblymen to repgranted by the law of 1853 resent the county in Sacramento, ing a gang from among the guntoters that moved “about Nevada Henry Plumer was one of the enough to assume responsibilitie s and hard enough to hold William Hill of Rough and George Young of Washington, J. B. Warfield of North San Juan and John Caldwell of Orleans City and Grass Valley. Each time he had discarded the idea, being unable to find a leader intelligent together, : . Sp were: party's choices; the othersReady, ns rabidly anti-alien American or Know Knothing Party, which two years. before had, swept the demacrats from office! be fo ee

“You should talk, keep your own nose clean. I suppose nobody's, talkin’ about you and the Vedder! woman.” , . “Bosh! She’s only an immigrant straight from the potato farms of Germany. She amuses me.” “I bet it don’t amuse her hus-} band.” . “John Vedder's another aquane:. head; he knows nothin’.’’ “But the psalm-singers do, and they’re gettin’ stronger every day. You ain't runnin’ the town yet, you know.” “Give me time, Bill; give me time. They don’t worry me a bit!” {Plumer rose and put on his hat. At the door he stopped and turned to Mayfield. “I intended to tell you. to watch the new 21 dealer. If he knocks down on the take let me know and I'll frame him for the court house gallows. And don’t forget to water down the last shipment of brandy.” Plumer snickered amiably at his partner and when Mayfield winked conspiratorily at him, he knew the man’s anger had passed. He accepted the reprimand. Mayfield was still in the palm of his hand. Worried About Friends The elections of 1857 promised a rough go both for Henry Plumer and the Chivalry wing of the Democratic party and yet he did not seem too concerned over the outcome. It was the disasters that had befallen -his outlaw ifriends that upset him. Tom Bell, \George Skinner, Mexican Frank ‘were dead; Cy, Big Dolph, Rom ero, Irish Carter in prison; and Rattlesnake Dick in hiding! Many a time Plumer had weighed the chances of organiz-. iNo, he must bide his tim e! Sooner or later Rattlesna ke Dick Barter would return, and then the two of them would work together, Dick knew the possibilitie s Neyada City held. The Wel ls Banker Birdseye, Isaac Fargo Witham: Son, Phillip & Mackie were all shi s ppi a ng e gold. Ratt] esnake xe wou W ld! ‘Plumer Again ds Nominated For Assembly

‘The Nevada County politicians jearned nothing from ,the San, Francisco’ Vigiliance Committee of 1856. It did not faze them that’ among the several murderers the vigilantes had hanged were a supervisor and a prominent gambler; that. the fire chief, the Sheriff: and his deputies the city marshal and_ his officers, the keeper of the county jail and a judge had been banished from California; and that a ,ustice of. -the State Supreme. Court had been ‘arrested and held by the committee pending the recovery of the man, whom the judge had stabbed with a bowie knife. Had he died, the judge would have pbeen-hanged as the other murdre erers were. The best proof that nothing had been learned came when the: Nevada County Democratic Party met in Nevada City Aug. 15, 1857 and made public. their ticket to be voted for in the election on aoe Sept. 9. Re _ Plumer Chosen “Of. the five assemblymen to repgranted by the law of 1853 resent the county in Sacramento, ing a gang from among the guntoters that moved “about Nevada Henry Plumer was one of the enough to assume responsibilitie s and hard enough to hold William Hill of Rough and George Young of Washington, J. B. Warfield of North San Juan and John Caldwell of Orleans City and Grass Valley. Each time he had discarded the idea, being unable to find a leader intelligent together, : . Sp were: party's choices; the othersReady, ns rabidly anti-alien American or Know Knothing Party, which two years. before had, swept the demacrats from office! be fo ee