Richard Dillon, one of California\'s premier historians, tells the compelling Story of San Francisco\'s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway.
Opium was abundant as were "slave.
As the Tong Wars ripped through San Francisco\'s Chinatown, the Chinese inhabitants lived under a reign of terror.
Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon\'s fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, and warlords preying on scores of helpless victims.
Richard Dillon, one of California\'s premier historians, tells the compelling Story of San Francisco\'s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway