San Francisco's literary frontier
By: by Franklin Walker
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Homes and haunts; In literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; American Authors
Notes: "A literary history of San Francisco from 1848 to 1875, with emphasis upon the sixties."--Foreword.

"First edition."

Bibliography: p. 363-370. "Notes and references": p. 371-400.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: I. A precocious frontier; title: II. The Fifties; title: III. Apprentice days; title: IV. Washoe silver and the Civil War; title: V. The "Golden era"; title: VI. Visitors; title: VII. Polite literature and ghosts; title: VIII. A rash of poetry; title: IX. The town crier; title: X. The "Overland monthly"; title: XI. Practical literature; title: XII. From Gold Gulch to Parnassus; title: XIII. Epilogue.