Alexander Leidesdorff's guest appearances

Alexander Leidesdorff

San Francisco History Podcast – Sparkletack

Andrew Smith

Robert Louis Stevenson

Patty Hearst

Philo T. Farnsworth

Starr King

Sam Clemens

Rincon Hill

Lotta Crabtree

Marian Brown

Luisa Tetrazzini

Charles Cora

Adolph Sutro

Samuel Holladay

Firebelle Lil

San Francisco Cemeteries

OwlTail

It was 1841, and like so many of those who have washed up on these shores, then or since, William Alexander Leidesdorff was a man on the run from his past — a man trying desperately to reinvent himself on the blank canvas of the western coast. Though hardly anyone remembers his name these days, […]

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