TY - BOOK AU - Brown,John Henry TI - Reminiscences and incidents of "the early days" of San Francisco AV - F869.S3 B8 PY - 1886///] CY - San Francisco, Calif. PB - Mission journal publishing co. KW - Ethnic groups KW - California KW - Women KW - Urbanization KW - Law KW - Political aspects KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Business KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - History N1 - "A small number only was printed, and the work is rare."--Cowan Bibl. of the hist. of Calif; Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site N2 - The English-born John Henry Brown (1810-1905) went to sea at an early age and was living among the Cherokees in 1843 when he set out for the Pacific Coast. Reminiscences and incidents of "the early days" of San Francisco (1886) describes his early work at Sutter's Fort before his permanent move to San Francisco, where he became a saloonkeeper and hotelkeeper. He offers a painstaking picture of the transformation of San Francisco's people and business patterns with the discovery of gold and provides lively tales of miners, gamblers, gangs and vigilance committees, shopkeepers, and real estate sepculators. He lists early white women in San Francisco and provides a map showing San Francisco's building lots and their occupants in this early period UR - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/calbk.157 ER -