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ASBURY, Herbert. The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. 0
5th printing. A look at life on the West Coast by the author of 'The Gangs of New York'. Pp.320/xii(index), black and white photo frontispiece of 'A Madame and Some of her Girls' + 20 further black and white plates, a few minor marginal spots, owner's names to front free endpaper. Black decorated cloth spine . Orange and cream illustrated boards of men attacking people in a street. Edges slightly rubbed. G+. ** "At the end of 1849, out of a population of between 20,000 and 25,000, only about 300 were women and an estimated almost two-thirds of those were prostitutes.[2] Miners, sailors, and sojourners hungry for female companionship and bawdy entertainment continued to stream into San Francisco in the 1850s and 60s becoming the Barbary Coast's primary clientèle. As the city exploded with the new arrivals, some with shady pasts, soon a wide variety of land sharks, con artists, pimps, and prostitutes staked out an area designed to pluck the gold and silver from the pockets of men through liquor, lust, laudanum-laced libations, or just a hard knock on the head.(Wiki)
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