The Barbary Coast

An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

Herbert Asbury

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Published: 1933

Pages: 319

Asbury's classic chronicle explores the birth of San Francisco--a violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter's Mill until the Great Fire. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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