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100 1  Graysmith, Robert. 
245 10 Black fire :|b[the true story of the original Tom Sawyer--
       and of the mysterious fires that baptized Gold Rush-era 
       San Francisco]|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cRobert 
       Graysmith. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2012. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
300    1 online resource (1 audio file (720 min.)) :|bdigital. 
336    spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 
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506    Digital content provided by hoopla. 
511 1  Read by Robert Graysmith. 
520    When twenty-eight-year-old San Francisco Daily Morning 
       Call reporter Mark Twain met Tom Sawyer at a local 
       bathhouse in 1863, he was seeking a subject for his first 
       novel. As Twain steamed, played cards, and drank beer with
       Sawyer (a volunteer firefighter, customs inspector, and 
       local hero responsible for having saved ninety lives at 
       sea), he had second thoughts about Shirley Tempest, his 
       proposed book about a local girl firefighter, and began to
       envision a novel of wider scope. Twain learned that a 
       dozen years earlier the then-eighteen-year-old New York-
       born Sawyer had been a "Torch Boy," one of the youths who 
       raced ahead of the volunteer firemen's hand-drawn engines 
       at night carrying torches to light the way, always aware 
       that a single spark could reduce the all-wood city of San 
       Francisco to ashes in an instant. At that time a 
       mysterious serial arsonist known by some as "The 
       Lightkeeper" was in the process of burning San Francisco 
       to the ground six times in eighteen months-the most 
       disastrous and costly series of fires ever experienced by 
       any American metropolis.Black Fire is the most thorough 
       and accurate account of Sawyer's relationship with Mark 
       Twain and of the six devastating incendiary fires that 
       baptized one of the modern world's favorite cities. Set 
       amid a scorched landscape of burning roads, melting iron 
       warehouses, exploding buildings, and deadly gangs who 
       extorted and ruled by fear, it includes the never-before-
       told stories of Sawyer's heroism during the sinking of the
       steamship Independence and the crucial role Sawyer and the
       Torch Boys played in solving the mystery of the 
       Lightkeeper.  Drawing on archival sources such as 
       actual San Francisco newspaper interviews with Sawyer and 
       the handwritten police depositions of the arrest of the 
       Lightkeeper, bestselling author Robert Graysmith vividly 
       portrays the gritty, corrupt, and violent world of Gold 
       Rush-era San Francisco, overrun with gunfighters, 
       hooligans, hordes of gold prospectors, crooked politicians,
       and vigilantes. By chronicling how Sawyer took it upon 
       himself to investigate, expose, and stop the arsonist, 
       Black Fire details-for the first time-Sawyer's remarkable 
       life and illustrates why Twain would later feel compelled 
       to name his iconic character after his San Francisco buddy
       when he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Sawyer, Tom,|d1832-1906. 
600 10 Twain, Mark,|d1835-1910|xFriends and associates. 
600 10 Sawyer, Tom|c(Fictitious character) 
600 10 Twain, Mark,|d1835-1910|vSources. 
650  0 Adventure and adventurers|zCalifornia|zSan Francisco
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Fire fighters|zCalifornia|zSan Francisco|vBiography. 
650  0 Fires|zCalifornia|zSan Francisco|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Arson|zCalifornia|zSan Francisco|xHistory|y19th century. 
651  0 San Francisco (Calif.)|vBiography. 
651  0 San Francisco (Calif.)|xHistory|y19th century. 
700 1  Graysmith, Robert. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
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