The Barbary Plague

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MARILYN CHASE has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal since 1978, concentrating on medical science and health care, and covering stories from cancer and AIDS to bioterrorism; she has been writing about epidemics for the newspaper since 1984. A graduate of Stanford University, Chase was awarded departmental honors in English literature. She attended graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley, earning a master’s degree in journalism. Chase lives with her family in San Francisco.

Copyright

Copyright © 2003 by Marilyn Chase

Map copyright © 2003 by David Lindroth, Inc.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to use unpublished material:

DUKE UNIVERSITY RARE BOOK, MANUSCRIPT AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY: Selected material from the John Hendricks Kinyoun Papers housed in the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library.

COLBY BUXTON RUCKER: Images of W. Colby Rucker as well as quotes from his diary, autobiography, and other papers. Material used courtesy of Colby Buxton Rucker.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Chase, Marilyn

The Barbary plague: the black death in Victorian San Francisco/Marilyn Chase.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-58836-285-8

1. Plague—California—San Francisco—History—20th century.

I. Title.

RC176.C2 C48 2003    362.1?969232?0979461—dc21    2002068102

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