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Before the bridges and the freeways, the Bay Area ran on horses and the farms that fed them. Each article here tells one piece of that history and lists its sources.
Each topic below lists its articles in the order they were published, so you can read a topic from the beginning.
San Francisco
The working horses of the city: streetcars, fire engines, deliveries and the people who drove them.
New to the words? The glossary explains each term in a sentence or two.