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Black Fire, The True Story Of The Original Tom Sawyer, And The Mysterious Fire That Baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco (2000)

by Robert Graysmith(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 5

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review 1: Got through 15% before checkout expired & couldn't renew. Will try again this summer during vacation reading. This book is one of 2 listed for the town of Crockett's One City, One Book read for 2014. It looked interesting, so I checked it out of a different library. If I can make it to the library on Saturday they are giving away free copies. This was a public library eBook check-out, not a book purchase for me. (Okld)
review 2: I love reading about San Francisco history and Black Fire is no exception. The book focused on the repeated fires that kept on burning San Francisco to the ground. Mark Twain lived in San Francisco and wrote stories for newspapers back east. It was in San Francisco that Twain became friends with Tom Sawyer, a teenager from New York wh... moreo volunteered at one of the fire houses. sawyer end up being the motivation for Mark Twains first book.It was fun to read about all these pople who I only know as street names. A lot of the story is repetitive with San Francisco burning down by accident and arson but that truly was early San Francisco. less

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