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Word: californi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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America to the U. S. In the next seven years before he faced a 'Honduran firing squad, William Walker hoisted his own flag over "the independent Republic of Lower Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bootleg Imperialist | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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