David S. Terry, a disappointed litigant with a grudge against Field, approached and appeared to be about to attack Field.
In 1985 Gould's book "A Cast of Hawks" (Copley, 1985) ISBN 0-913938-28-9 was published which dealt with the background of the United States Supreme Court case In re Neagle that he termed "A Rowdy Tale of Scandal and Power Politics in Early San Francisco" from the gold rush of 1849, the debate in California about being a slave holding state in the 1850s and the wild west until the end of the century.