San Francisco Stories
Agoston Haraszthy, man of diverse talents
His Royal Majesty, Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton I of the United States
Bret Harte
Mark Twain
The dangerous duelist Judge Terry and unfortunate Sarah Hill
The tragic love of Charles and Belle Cora
The unfortunate success of Ah Toy
Donaldina Cameron
The brief and glorious life of Lincoln Beachey
Tien Fuh Wu's fight to rescue enslaved girls
Conchita Arguello and her long wait for love
Count Nikolai Rezanov and his visit to Presidio
Senator Broderick, who lived for graft and died for freedom
Mary Ellen Pleasant, friend of John Brown
William Leidesdorff, first in everything
Charles Warren Stoddard
Charles and Michael de Young, violent publishers
Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, beauty and beautifier
Ina Coolbrith, California's first Poet Laureate
The Vigilance Committee of 1851
Dante Benedetti and how he kept baseball alive in SF
Amadeo Giannini, the people's banker
Chee Kung Tong
Thomas Starr King, the orator who saved the nation
Look Tin Eli
George Sterling
Alice Marble
Filipino community in San Francisco
The Vigilance Committee of 1856
Mrs Cool and decorative dentistry
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle