Rand Richards read Mud Blood & Gold at Green Apple Books April 22, 2009

In San Francisco in 1849, there was one thing that every person in the city was looking to do: get rich, and the sooner the better. Local historian (and former private eye) Rand Richards writes about the founding of San Francisco in his latest book. There have been many books on the gold rush, but this is the first to focus solely on San Francisco as it was at the peak of the gold frenzy. With a “you are there” immediacy, Richards vividly brings to life what San Francisco was like during the landmark year of 1849. Based on eyewitness accounts and previously overlooked official records, the book chronicles the explosive growth of a wide-open town rife with violence, gambling, and prostitution, all of it fueled by unbridled greed.

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