Fortunes and Failures: White-Collar Mobility in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco

by Peter R. Decker

Book by Decker, Peter R.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Peter Decker received a Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University, and taught at both Columbia and Duke University. After relocating to Colorado, he served as Commissioner of Higher Education, Commissioner of Agriculture, and a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Denver. In addition to scholarly publications about the history of the West, Decker self-published Saving the West, a satirical novel. Decker makes his home on a ranch in Colorado.