Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime Format:Hardcover Jay Gordon for more than

Jay Gordon for more than three decades

this intimate portrait shares the tragedies

Accessibly written and with numerous color illustrations

and his left side has been pierced with a knife

especially now that her mom is gone

Historic Photos of San Francisco Crime Format:Hardcover Jay Gordon for more thanLong after the gold rush had faded into history, San Francisco was still earning its title as the capital of the Wild, Wild West. Beneath its cosmopolitan, urbane veneer, the city at the dawn of the twentieth century still seethed with crime. Raucous crowds still gathered at the Old Barbary Coast dives and dance halls, hangouts for thieves and prostitutes, and by 1906, San Franciscos elected officials had embarked on a spree of corruption that would