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FOREWORD

As the reader will no doubt discern, Meiggs Wharf, which plays a prominent part of the story, later became San Francisco’s famous Fisherman’s Wharf. It was built by Henry Meiggs, a man some called a Victorian hustler. At one point in his career, he paid off his money lenders with bad checks and had to flee to Valparaiso, Chile, where he couldn’t be extradited. The story has a happy ending, though. He made a small fortune building railroads in South America, returned to San Francisco, and paid back every cent he owed his creditors. Meiggs Wharf stretched an amazingly long two thousand feet into the bay, some two hundred feet longer than it does today.