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December 12, 2012 01:43 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6XR9mGBO_yE/vigilante-wars.html
Vigilante Wars
San Francisco is certainly a quirky place and Cecila Holland's Vigilante Wars sheds a lot of light on how we got there! The inner-workings and many of the social mores that today are common-place were founded in some crazy times. Holland recounts the lawlessness, mob rule and colorful characters that the 1849 Gold Rush brought [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6XR9mGBO_yE/vigilante-wars.html
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