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» Google Books: San Francisco History: The Barbary Coast
   Partial text of Herbert Asbury's 1933 informal history of the San Francisco underworld.
   http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&id=KbfGPNuaNqcC

» Herbert Asbury
   Information on the author of Gangs of New York, his family and his other works.
   http://herbertasbury.com/

» Herbert Asbury: Wikipedia
   Biographical article on the author of The Gangs of New York and other informal histories of crime.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asbury

» Salon: Sex, Sin and the Gangs of San Francisco
   Gary Kamiya discusses The Barbary Coast, Herbert Asbury's informal history of the San Francisco underworld.
   http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2002/12/20/asbury/index.html

» The Wild Geese: Review of Herbert Asbury's "Gangs of New York"
   Patricia Jameson-Sammartano provides a detailed review of the informal underworld history.
   http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/bkregony.html