Books
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The Barbary plague | Marilyn Chase | Describes an epidemic of bubonic plague that erupted in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and the efforts of scientists to contain the disease, discover its source, and eradicate it from the city. | OL15829348W |
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The Barbary Plague | Marilyn Chase | "San Francisco in 1900 was a Gold Rush boomtown settling into a gaudy middle age. . . . It had a pompous new skyline with skyscrapers nearly twenty stories tall, grand hotels, and Victorian mansions … | OL8036699W |