Account of the Burdue Trial and Vigilance Committee of 1851 and 1856 / by William Tell Coleman : manuscript and typescript, circa 1877.

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Account of the Burdue Trial and Vigilance Committee of 1851 and 1856 / by William Tell Coleman : manuscript and typescript, circa 1877.

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Folder 1. Manuscript of above title, together with business experiences, 1876 (179 pages), and reminiscence of William Tell Coleman (9 pages) -- Folder 2. Typescript of the Burdue Trial, etc. (135 pages) -- Folder 3. William Tell Coleman dictation on Vigilante Committee matters (2 pages) and biographical dictation (23 pages).

3 folders.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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