02385nam 2200565 450 991079757720332120170919051209.01-4422-4736-3(CKB)3710000000466124(EBL)4085969(SSID)ssj0001544813(PQKBManifestationID)16136826(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001544813(PQKBWorkID)13246004(PQKB)10897144(MiAaPQ)EBC4085969(EXLCZ)99371000000046612420160122h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn the fringes of power the life and turbulent career of Senator Stephen Wallace Dorsey /Mari GrañaGuilford, Connecticut ;Helena, Montana :TwoDot,2015.©20151 online resource (145 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4422-4735-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 4; CHAPTER 5; CHAPTER 6; CHAPTER 7; CHAPTER 8; CHAPTER 9; CHAPTER 10; CHAPTER 11; CHAPTER 12; CHAPTER 13; CHAPTER 14; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorTouted 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.LegislatorsUnited StatesBiographyPoliticiansNew MexicoBiographyLandownersNew MexicoBiographyRanchersNew MexicoBiographyNew MexicoBiographyLegislatorsPoliticiansLandownersRanchers328.73/092Graña Mari1936-1210917MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797577203321On the fringes of power3796767UNINA