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A Web of Gold and People in San Francisco Scene
The piece paints San Francisco’s South of the Square as a bustling frontier town with gold fever. It contrasts traders, scholars, and revelers, showing fortunes won and lost, high prices for basic needs, and the social drift amid rapid growth. It also cites colonial period journalism and temperance debates, plus personal anecdotes of notable locals and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Francisco
Walter Colton
U. S Navy
Bay of San Francisco
Ainnis
Holland
Indiana
Purchaker
Yules
Yuba
Aras
Greenland
United States
Yale College
Catal- Iya
Pulporia
San Francisco
Sacramento
Joaquin
England
Ching
Pacific
Charleston Mercury
National Intelligencer
Aldimen
Waual
Usu
Nashville
Trong
Dom Quixote
Rusclid
Jewi
Union
Mississippi
South Carolina
Sout
Cmd
Pablo
South
Dinunion
Hill