Delaplane, Kristin

Sep 22, 1996

Abstract: The winter of 1858, the citizens of Benicia had a full view of a snow-covered Mount Diablo. By February, the rains had begun. In January, two men, apparently from Napa, were out hunting about two miles from Benicia. One man raised his gun to fire at a duck on the wing. Just at that fatal moment his companion stepped in front of the muzzle. He died that night.