The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury

The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

Herbert Asbury

431 pages digital 1933

5 editions

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative medium-paced
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The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upo...

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