Salted Tories: The Story of the Whaling Fleets of San Francisco, October, 1960, No. 37

ix, 114 pp. Despite the variety of books on American whaling, little has been done to present the story of San Francisco whaling. The port for the gold rush to California became as important to the west coast whaling as New Bedford had been for the east coast. Mr. Lloyd C. M. Hare has carefully selected material from a wide range of facts concerned with San Francisco as a whaling port. From the days when the first whaleships slipped through the Gold Gate, in the 1820's, to the last decade of their activities in this century, he has traced the history of this practically unknown chapter in American whaling.