![]() ![]() ![]() ĭied Februin New York City from chronic lung problems, the result of injuries he suffered from a gas attack in WWI. This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter’s Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. The Barbary Coast is the chronicle of the birth of San Francisco. Owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. ![]() The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. ![]() The Barbary Coast-An Informal History of the San Francisco UnderworldĬrime, gold, history, non-fiction, music halls, American west, San Francisco ![]()
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