Gallic Wars

Double-faced Mithraic relief. Fiano Romano (Rome), 2nd to 3rd century CE ( Louvre Museum ).

01Parkhurst voted in the 1868 U.S. presidential election in Santa Cruz County, the first known trans man to do so in America.
02Described by contemporaries as among the finest stagecoach drivers on the California-Oregon run, handling six-horse teams in mountain snow.
03At death in 1879, a coroner's examination revealed Parkhurst's birth sex — news that reached newspapers across the country within days.

Caesar's eight-year campaign through Gaul killed an estimated one million people and enslaved another million — roughly one in five Gauls — and he wrote about it in third person as if describing someone else's war.