"Any city that doesn't have a Tenderloin isn't a city at all" - Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Few San ...

In “Trespassers at the Golden Gate,” Krist’s focus is an adulterous affair that culminated, in 1870, with a pistol shot, fired in fading daylight on the ferry that crossed San Francisco Bay.

Around dusk one evening in November 1870, a steam-powered ferry pulled away from Oakland’s wharf, heading to San Francisco. Aboard was the prominent California attorney and politician A.P ...