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

318 pages first pub 1933 (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. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable fr...

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