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Foreword

Although this book is a work of fiction, many of the incidents are based on fact. During the Gold Rush, there really was an area along Sacramento’s waterfront where rowdy, rip-roaring saloons never closed. Where fortunes could be made or lost over the turn of a card. Where steamboats occasionally exploded and monstrous floods covered the entire Sacramento valley.