America’s Last Emperor: Warning

Chapter Sixteen

Washerwoman’s Lagoon, courtesy OpenSFHistory.org

July 6th, 1856

The days that followed the hangings of Casey and Cora were among the strangest that Norton had seen so far. The events would normally be alarming to him, as the rights of ordinary citizens were trod upon hourly by the vigilantes in their attempts to clean up the town. The people they targeted were mostly politicians this time, which made it…