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

Author/Contributor(s):	Asbury, Herbert
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	10/09/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.