San Francisco’s First Boom
Jul 03, 2018
2 minutes
We think of San Francisco as a boomtown these days because of its central position in the technology industry, but, of course, it has played that role before, when the Gold Rush began in 1848. Thomas O. Larkin had a unique view of that frenzy — he was the Navy’s agent in
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