The Sprague-Conkling affair started on a pleasant day in August of 1879 at Narragansett Pier, a fashionable resort, in Rhode Island. The people summering there might have overlooked some high-spirited hijinks among their friends and guests, but when a former governor and senator runs through the street with a shotgun, that’s the sort of thing ...
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