
Today in history: 1857, Come to the ‘Nicaragua Saloon’ in Marysville, where William Walker is revered
On June 4, 1857, an ad for a local saloon whose proprietor sympathized with one of Marysville’s most notorious attorneys, and the nation’s most famed ‘filibusterer’, declared, “Walker Triumphant! Nicaragua Safe!’ Why would a classified ad on the front page …