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Overview
Like new this later edition with dust jacket ... good
Description
Out of the Barbary Coast came the women and men who turned California from
El Dorado to America.In the 1850s, gold lures thousands to California.
Miners dug it, Bankers stacked it… and the glittering bordellos of the
Barbary Coast grabbed as much as they could. Murielle Duclos who sailed into
San Francisco at the age of fifteen years old was sent to get it. Abused and
controlled by her mother's lover, Murielle was forced into a life of
prostitution. But the political struggle between the Mexicanos
and the Americans for ultimate control of California gave Murielle the
opportunity to become wealthier than all her rivals. She realized her
ambitions by understanding a simple fact: in the Golden State, power is more
important than gold.
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