Stormy Petrel: N.G. Gonzales and His State
1973 · Columbia, SC
by Jones, Lewis
Columbia, SC: USC Press for the S.C. Tricentennial Commission, 1973. First edition. 8vo. x, (2), 340 pp. Biography of the founder of The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C.; in 1891 Gonzales (1858-1903) was assassinated in front of the state capitol for his personal campaign against "Tillmanism," the state's version of the Farmers' Revolt of the 1880s and 1890s. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in 1974. Very good. Blue boards, decorated dust jacket. (#8025). (Inventory #: 61013)