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The Barbary Coast


The Barbary Coast
An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld

by Herbert Asbury

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
New York, 1933.


CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1. "The Miners Came in Forty-Nine"

Chapter 2. Hounds and Harlots

Chapter 3. The Sydney Ducks

Chapter 4. The Second Cleansing

Chapter 5. "Where No Gentle Breezes Blow"

Chapter 6. The Bella Union

Chapter 7. The Chinese and The Hoodlums

Chapter 8. The Slaves of Chinatown

Chapter 9. "God Help the Poor Sailor!"

Chapter 10. "Company, Girls!"

Chapter 11. Slummer's Paradise

Chapter 12. The End of the Barbary Coast


Source: Asbury, Herbert. The Barbary Coast. 1933: New York.
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