Elusive State of Jefferson A Personal Journey Through the 51st State

Name: Elusive State of Jefferson A Personal Journey Through the 51st State
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ISBN: 9780762788361

ISBN-10: 0762788364

ISBN-13: 9780762788361

Edition: 2013

Authors: Peter Laufer

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By 1941, a nascent statehood movement began to coalesce into an active and explicit secession campaign seeking to carve from Northern California and Southern Oregon a new State of Jefferson. Yreka, California, home of the secession movement, was named the temporary state capital. Local proponents, Members of the State of Jefferson Citizens Committee, began to stop traffic along Highway 99 at armed roadblocks to pass out political broadsides – their Proclamation of Independence. And, in December of that year, Judge John Childs of Crescent City, California, was elected the first Governor of the State of Jefferson.The United States’ entry into World War II just days later interrupted this…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English