Black fire : the true story of the original Tom Sawyer--and of the mysterious fires that baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco / written and illustrated by Robert Graysmith.

First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graysmith, Robert
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:x, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Dramatis personae -- Prologue -- pt. 1. The man who burned down San Francisco : December 24, 1849-September 16, 1850 -- Broderick and the Christmas Eve catastrophe -- Sawyer -- Sleep runners and flying houses -- Broderick's rogues -- Rainbow rivers of gold and silver -- pt. 2. The lightkeeper : September 17, 1850-June 22, 1851 -- Tug of war -- The melting house -- The lodger -- The golden ring -- pt. 3. Steaming with Twain and Sawyer : May 26, 1863-December 16, 1866 -- Steamers -- The fire girl -- Let us build a city. 
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