Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco [Large Print]

By Gary Krist

"On November 3, 1870, as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling into San Francisco Bay, a woman she drew a pistol and aimed it a man, firing a single bullet into his chest. "I did it and I don't deny it," she said when arrested. "He ruined both myself and my daughter." The trial made headlines and shone a spotlight on the role of women and the range of acceptable expressions of gender. Krist recounts this story in a rollicking narrative that probes what it all meant for a city eager for the world stage"--

• Format: Hardcover
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1420522485
• ISBN13: 9781420522488
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Length: 673 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"