Broderick, a man of Irish-Catholic origins who had worked as a bouncer and tavern owner in New York City before setting out for California after the great gold strike a decade prior. And one man dying from a shot to the chest, just nine years after California had officially become the 31st state of the union – and mere months before America lapsed into civil war. They mark the spot where a pair of combatants faced each other in what is regarded as the last notable duel to take place in the United States: a shootout in autumn 1859 that resulted in the death of a United States senator at the hand of a retired chief justice of the California Supreme Court after years of dispute about slavery and a rash of insults the two men had been hurling at each other.Ī real duel. In a wooded ravine just south of Harding Park and between the boundaries of the Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club stand two small stone obelisks, a carefully measured 10 paces apart. This article originally published in 2012 and was republished in August 2020. Throughout the remainder of the holiday season, we will provide a look back at some of the best content from our writers at Global Golf Post Plus.
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