Trade paperback,
320 pages,
6 x 9, 60 illustrations,
bibliography, index,
resource notes.
ISBN: 0-930235-05-3
$16.95

More San Francisco Memoirs 1852–1899
The ripening years
Compiled and introduced by Malcolm E. Barker

Twenty-eight men and women recall their experiences as the raw, newly born city of sandhills and gambling saloons matures into a metropolis of elegant homes and bustling factories. These voices from the past tell us of life during the Civil War, living under vigilante justice, and globe-trotting tourists on visits to Barbary Coast dives and the opium dens of Chinatown.

We see inside private homes, humble and haughty. And we watch an elegant parade of horse-drawn carriages drive through the brand new Golden Gate Park.

Among those who speak for themselves are:

• Frank Marryat - "Shampoo, shave, and oysters."
• Eliza Woodson Farnham - "The first of the Mohicans."
• Amelia Ransome Neville - "Civil war!"
• Mark Twain - "Early morning at the Cliff House."
• Anthony Trollope - "There is little or nothing to see."
• Rudyard Kipling - "Tea with the natives."

For more information, see: Contents, Illustrations, Preface, Index. Ordering Information.

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