03116cam a2200325 4500 2576098949 TxAuBib 20250926120000.0 250527s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781420522488 large print 1420522485 large print TxAuBib Krist, Gary, author. Trespassers at the Golden Gate : a true account of love, murder, and madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco / Gary Krist. True account of love, murder, and madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco. Large print edition. [Farmington Hills, Michigan] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025. 673 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Prologue: an atrocious act -- Converging paths. A restless man ; A town of mud and gold ; Setbacks ; No place for a lady ; Assorted insurrections ; An ungovernable woman ; Blue, gray, and silver -- Love and war. The fortunes of war ; The silver magnet ; Love in bloom ; Provocateurs ; Living dangerously ; The war after the war -- Manufacturing respectability. A city on the move ; Broken promises ; Bicoastal relationships ; Wife vs. wife ; A splendid ruin ; A threat ; The restless ghost -- A woman in name only. The great man honored ; Dueling clichés ; A female Hercules ; Neither saint nor demon ; The lady triumphs -- Epilogue: the New York of the west. "Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. The woman fired a single bullet into his chest. Though little remembered today, the trial of Laura D. Fair for the murder of her lover, A. P. Crittenden, made headlines nationwide. As bestselling author Gary Krist reveals, the operatic facts of the case--a woman strung along for years by a two-timing man, killing him in an alleged fit of madness--challenged an American populace still searching for moral consensus after the Civil War. The trial shone an early and uncomfortable spotlight on social issues like the role of women, the sanctity of the family, and the range of acceptable expressions of gender, while jolting the still-adolescent metropolis of 1870s San Francisco, a city eager to shed its rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era reputation."--‡cProvided by publisher. 20250926. Fair, Laura D., 1837-1919. Crittenden, Alexander Parker, 1816-1870. Murder California San Francisco History 19th century. San Francisco (Calif) History 19th century. San Francisco (Calif) Social conditions 19th century. True crime stories. fast TXKIP