Black Fire (45 page)

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More San Francisco Memoirs 1852–1899
. San Francisco: Londonborn Publications, 1994.

Beebe, Lucius, and Charles Clegg.
San Francisco’s Golden Era: A Picture Story of San Francisco Before the Fire
. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1960.

Bell, Major Horace.
On the Old West Coast
. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1930.

Benemann, William, editor.
A Year of Mud and Gold. San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849–1850
. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Boessenecker, John.
Against the Vigilantes: The Recollections of Dutch Charley Duane
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. (Duane’s memoir was originally printed in the
San Francisco Examiner
, 1881. An excellent history, well written and an important source.)

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Gold Dust & Gunsmoke: Tales of Gold Rush Outlaws, Gunfighters, Lawmen, and Vigilantes
. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1999. From published edition and advance uncorrected proofs. (This is a valuable source for the stories of Billy Mulligan, Dutch Charley, and Yankee Sullivan.)

Block, Eugene E.
Great Stagecoach Robbers of the West
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1962. (Great resource for Hank Monk.)

Brands, H. W.
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.

Browning, Peter.
San Francisco
/
Yerba Buena
. Lafayette, CA: Great West Books, 1998.

Camp, William Martin.
San Francisco, Port of Gold
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1947.

Carlisle, Henry C.
San Francisco Street Names: Sketches of the Lives of Pioneers for Whom San Francisco Streets Are Named
. San Francisco: The American Trust Company, 1954.

Coffin, George B., and Gorham B. Coffin, editor.
A Pioneer Voyage to California and Round the World, 1849 to 1852
. Chicago: Gorham B. Coffin, 1908. (Firsthand accounts of the great fires by an artistic sailor.)

Cole, Tom.
A Short History of San Francisco
. San Francisco: Don’t Call It Frisco Press, 1981.

Country Beautiful editors.
Great Fires of America
. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Country Beautiful Publishing, 1973.

DeFord, Miriam Allen.
They Were San Franciscans
. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1941.

Delgado, James P.
To California by Sea: A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush
. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

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Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront
. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2009. (A treasure trove of valuable archaeological information about Yerba Buena Cove from a leading maritime archaeologist.)

Dickson, Samuel.
Tales of San Francisco
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965.

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Tales of Love and Hate in Old San Francisco
. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1971.

Dillon, Richard H.
Embarcadero: Being a Chronicle of True Sea Adventures from the Port of San Francisco
. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1959.

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Humbugs and Heroes
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1970.

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Shanghaiing Days
. Garden City, NY: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1961.

Dobie, Charles Caldwell.
San Francisco: A Pageant
. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

Dunshee, Kenneth Holcomb.
As You Pass By
. New York: Hastings House, 1952. A major source for information about New York firehouses and volunteers, 1832–66.

Duke, Donald, editor.
Water Trails West: The Western Writers of America
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978.

Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner.
The Beginnings of San Francisco, Vol. 1
. New York: John C. Rankin, 1912.

The Exempt Firemen of San Francisco: Their Unique and Gallant Record
. Also includes a Résumé of the San Francisco Fire Department and its Personnel. San Francisco: H. C. Pendleton, 1900. (This book was written while Tom Sawyer was still alive. Pp. 100–101 include his biography as a volunteer firefighter and his heroism during the sinking of the steamer
Independence
as well as a long Lilly Hitchcock piece as a torch girl and an honorary fireman by Frederick J. Bowlen, battalion chief, SFFD.)

Fehrenback, T. R.
Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
. New York: Macmillan, 1968. (Coffee “Jack” Hays biography.)

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, editor.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in The Oxford Mark Twain
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Fracchia, Charles A.
Fire & Gold
. Encinitas, California: Heritage Media, 1996.

Garvey, John.
San Francisco Fire Department
. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

Gilliam, Harold.
San Francisco Bay
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1957. (A terrific book and one of my all-time favorites.)

Goodenough, Simon.
The Fire Engine, an Illustrated History
. Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1978.

Gorn, Elliott J.
The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America
. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Green, Floride.
Some Personal Recollections of Lillie Hitchcock Coit-5
. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, Limited Edition of 450 copies, 1935. Includes plates from old photographs of Lillie, her mother and father, and engravings. Illustrator might have been Green herself.

Greer, James Kimmins.
Colonel Jack Hays, Texas Frontier Leader and California Builder
. Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1987.

Harlan, George.
San Francisco Bay Ferryboats
. San Diego: Howell-North Books, 1967.

Hazen, Robert M., and Margaret Hindle Hazen.
Keepers of the Flame
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Hearn, Michael Patrick, editor.
The Annotated Huckleberry Finn
. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2001.

Hoffer, Peter Charles.
Seven Fires
. New York: Public Affairs, 2006.

Holdredge, Helen.
Firebelle Lillie
. New York: Meredith Press, 1967. (A very valuable biography of the little torch girl that mentions Tom Sawyer’s rivalry with Davey Scannell and Lillie’s enduring friendship with Mark Twain.)

Jackson, Donald Dale.
Gold Dust
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.

Jackson, Joseph Henry, editor.
The Western Gate, A San Francisco Reader
. New York: Farrar, Straus and Young. (Jackson reprints “The Terry-Broderick Duel,” Ben C. Truman, 1859.)

Jacobson, Pauline.
City of the Golden ’Fifties
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941. (Tom Sawyer is mentioned on p. 84, Ed Stahle on pp. 80–81. Davey Scannell’s marathon eating sessions are covered on pp. 54–55. Charlie Robinson’s torch boy story is told on pp. 46–47, and the tale of Curly Jack Carroll’s botched wedding is on p. 49.)

Johnson, Kenneth M.
San Francisco As It Is
. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1964.

Johnson, Paul C.
Pictorial History of California
. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1970.

Johnson, Paul C., and Richard Reinhardt.
San Francisco As It Is, As It Was
. San Francisco: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979.

Johnson, William Weber.
The Forty-Niners
. New York: Time-Life Books, 1974. (On p. 192 Charles Robinson relates how he and two other torch boys fell into a pit leading an engine when he was a torch boy in North Beach, San Francisco.)

Jones, Idwal.
Ark of Empire, San Francisco’s Montgomery Block
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1955. (The author discusses Sawyer and Twain steaming together in the baths in the Montgomery Block on p. 200. “It was a fortunate acquaintance for the ex-fireman.…” Jones speaks of torch boy Charlie Robinson’s upstairs painting studio on p. 236.)

Kaplan, Justin.
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Kelly, Joellen L., Robert A. Yatsuk., and J. Gordon Routley.
Firefighters
. New York: Universe Publishers, 2003.

Kemble, John Haskell.
San Francisco Bay, A Pictorial Maritime History
. Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1957.

Kersey, A.T.J., and William J. Goudie, editors.
Ripper’s Heat Engines
. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

Kowalewski, Michael, editor.
Gold Rush
. Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 1997.

Levy, Jo Ann.
They Saw the Elephant
. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

Lewis, Oscar.
San Francisco: Mission to Metropolis
. San Diego: Howell-North Books, 1980.

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Sea Routes to the Gold Fields
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. (The sinking of the
Independence
is presented on pp. 252–53.)

Lewis, Oscar, editor.
This Was San Francisco
. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1962.

Lockwood, Charles.
Suddenly San Francisco
. San Francisco: The Hearst Corporation, 1978.

MacMullen, Jerry.
Paddle-Wheel Days in California
. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1944.

Marryat, Frank.
Mountains and Molehills
. Reprint of 1855 edition. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1952.

Mayer, Robert, editor and compiler.
San Francisco, A Chronological and Documentary History, 1542–1970
. New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1974.

McGloin, John Bernard, S. J.
San Francisco, The Story of A City
. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press, 1978.

Mee, Bob.
Bare Fists
. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2001. (Yankee Sullivan fights and background.)

Meltzer, Milton.
Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography
. New York: Bonanza Books, 1960.

Mullen, Kevin J.
Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco
. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1989. (A scholarly, factually reasoned, and deeply researched study of the police records of Old San Francisco by an ex–deputy police chief with twenty-six years of service with the San Francisco Police Department.)