Marilyn Chase: 1 book
The Barbary Plague
The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2003
“San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions on Nob Hill. . . . The wharf bristled with masts and smokestacks from as many as a thousand sailing...
