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	Oyster pirate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oyster pirate is a term rarely if ever encountered outside of accounts of the life of Jack London.
		Jack London described oyster piracy in his autobiographical "alcoholic memoirs", John Barleycorn, in the form of romanticized juvenile fiction in The Cruise of the Dazzler, and from the opposing point of view of the California Fish Patrol in "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates," from Tales of the Fish Patrol.
		Oyster pirating was also listed as one of London's first occupations after leaving a cannery at the age of fifteen by Abraham Rothberg in an Introduction to The Great Adventure Stories of Jack London (1967).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oyster_pirate (323 words)

	Chesapeake Bay - Oyster Wars - The Mariners' Museum
		While Cameron was able to later reinstate an "oyster navy" in Virginia waters through the work of the Board on the Chesapeake and its Tributaries in 1884, his popularity had faded, and with it the possibility of continuing in power.
		Cameron's oyster wars were not the first such "wars" waged on the Chesapeake, nor would they be the last.
		From James F. Duncan, Driven From the Seas: or, The pirate dredger's doom: to the surviving "bottle-scarred heroes" of the late oyster war this little travesty is respectfully dedicated.
	www.mariner.org /chesapeakebay/oyster/mod006.html (476 words)

	Chesapeake Bay - Oyster Wars - The Mariners' Museum
		The "Oyster Wars" of the lower Chesapeake Bay, waged by Virginia's Governor William E. Cameron from 1882 to 1883, were some of the more spectacular events in an ongoing war between the government of the Commonwealth and the "lawless" oyster dredgers of the Chesapeake Bay.
		But unlike other Chesapeake oyster "wars" of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these skirmishes were not border disputes between Maryland and Virginia watermen.
		The explosion of the oyster industry in Virginia following the Civil War led to an increased emphasis on legislation that would protect the underwater wealth of Virginia from overuse as well as from exploitation by "foreign" interests - "foreign" meaning anyone not Virginian.
	www.mariner.org /chesapeakebay/oyster/mod001.html (245 words)

	Oyster pirate - TheBestLinks.com - Autobiography, Monopoly, San Francisco Bay, 1880s, ...
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		Oyster pirate, Autobiography, Monopoly, San Francisco Bay, 1880s, Entrepreneur...
		Jack London's described oyster piracy in his autobiographical "alcoholic memoirs," John Barleycorn; in the form of romanticized juvenile fiction in The Cruise of the Dazzler; and from the opposing point of view of the California Fish Patrol in "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates," from Tales of the Fish Patrol.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Oyster_pirate.html (304 words)

	John Barleycorn by Jack London eBook by BookRags
		Mamie, who was Spider’s niece, was called the Queen of the Oyster Pirates, and, on occasion, presided at their revels.
		But the Queen of the Oyster Pirates was looking at me, a part-emptied glass in her own hand.
		Hadley, and the young oyster pirate, and the whiskered wharf-rat, all with glasses in their hands.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/318/24.html (531 words)

	SKIPJACK by MIDWEST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Operated by poachers and pursued often by the authorities, they dredged at night on oyster beds, and were known for their speed.
		The Skipjack's continued use is decreed by state fishery laws, since they do far less damage to the oyster beds than a fleet of modern power dredges.
		At the turn of the century, approximately 2000 Skipjack's comprised the oyster fleet.
	www.historicships.com /TALLSHIPS/Midwest/Skipjack.htm (263 words)

	Heinold's First and Last Chance
		She is determined to preserve the in and outward décor of the oldest and most historic treasure of Jack London Square.
		The potbellied stove that warmed Jack London and his oyster pirate friends, the photos, Bob Fitzsimmons' and Jim Jeffries' boxing gloves, the early mugs and glasses, the original mahogany bar are all part of the mementos that Carol Brookman protects for Oakland and our heritage.
		The furniture consisted of a few old chairs and tables and such other things as are required to make the seafaring and waterfront men feel at home.
	www.heinoldsfirstandlastchance.com /intro.shtml (353 words)

	Beyond Books - Guest Experts - Mike Wilson as Jack London Transcript
		As a young man he held a succession of fascinating jobs: California fish patrolman, hobo, oyster pirate, and gold prospector.
		It was during his years as a prospector that he gained the experiences that were to prove fertile for his writing.
		You were an oyster pirate, you worked for the California sea patrol, you did some hoboing.
	www.beyondbooks.com /chat/2001/wilsonarchive.asp (7574 words)

	Jack London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		And here I sat now, glass in hand, in warm-glowing camaraderie, with the oyster pirates, adventurers who refused to be slaves to petty routine, who flouted restrictions and the law, who carried their lives and their liberty in their hands.
		Before long, London was raiding oyster beds and selling the mollusks to the local fish markets.
		He became so adept at the game that the locals called him the "Prince of the Oyster Pirates." He made more money in one week of pirating than he earned in his first full year as a professional writer.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-011204-london.html (1674 words)

	London, Jack. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		At 17, Jack London shipped as an able seaman to Japan and the Bering Sea.
		He was an oyster pirate, a gold-seeker in the first Klondike rush, a newspaper correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, and in 1914 a war correspondent in Mexico.
		His stories, romantic adventures with realistic setting and character, began to appear first in the Overland Monthly.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/London-J.html (348 words)

	A Short Biography of Jack London With Color Pictures
		While he did not live long enough to begin the autobiography his notes indicate he planned to write, we are fortunate that so much of his writing is autobiographical in nature.
		Oyster pirate, deep-sea sailor, hobo, Alaskan prospector, all these incidents in his life make fascinating reading.
		But most important of all Jack London's adventures was his struggle to become a writer.
	www.jacklondons.net /shortbio.html (1278 words)

	Home
		We all try to live up to the high standards of the Oyster River Pirate Company and it's leaders.
		The Oyster River Pirate Company is an ever changing group of men and women who are joined by a love of fun.
		Although it can't be proved, the summer headquarters seems to be the shanties on Oyster River.
	www.orpco.com (165 words)

	Jack London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been suggested that Oyster pirate be merged into this article or section.
		Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and over fifty other books.
		Seeking a way out of this gruelling labor, he borrowed money from his fl foster mother Jennie Prentiss, bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle from an oyster pirate named French Frank, and became an oyster pirate himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_London (6563 words)

	John Barleycorn: Chapter VII
		And the winds of adventure blew the oyster pirate sloops up and down San Francisco Bay, from raided oyster-beds and fights at night on shoal and flat, to markets in the morning against city wharves, where peddlers and saloon-keepers came down to buy.
		And there was vastly more romance in being an oyster pirate or a convict than in being a machine slave.
		To-morrow I would be an oyster pirate, as free a freebooter as the century and the waters of San Francisco Bay would permit.
	london.sonoma.edu /Writings/JohnBarleycorn/chapter7.html (1425 words)

	John Barleycorn: Chapter XI
		We of the oyster boats waited until we had disposed of our cargoes before we got really started, though a scattering of drinks and a meeting of a chance friend sometimes precipitated an accidental drunk.
		We oyster pirates were all visited by the searching Italian, and we were convinced, from what we knew of their movements, that Whisky Bob and Nicky the Greek were the guilty parties.
		And Scotty threw up his job as crew, and departed in the night with a pair of blankets belonging to me. During the night, while the oyster pirates lay stupefied in their bunks, the schooner and the Reindeer floated on the high water and swung about to their anchors.
	london.sonoma.edu /Writings/JohnBarleycorn/chapter11.html (2167 words)

	ClassZone: Language of Literature Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lonely most of the time, London turned to books for companionship and claimed to have received much of his education in the public library.
		Pirate to Hobo London is as famous for his risky adventures as for his writing.
		At age 15, he became an oyster pirate, illegally raiding commercial oyster beds along the California coast.
	www.classzone.com /lol_demo/authors/09/9london.htm (250 words)

	John Barleycorn -by Jack London
		Gradual as was my development as a heavy drinker among the oyster pirates, the real heavy drinking came suddenly, and was the result, not of desire for alcohol, but of an intellectual conviction.
		I, a truly-true oyster pirate, was going aboard my own boat after hob-nobbing in the Last Chance with Nelson, the greatest oyster pirate of us all.
		And this was the thrifty, close-fisted boy, accustomed to slave at a machine for ten cents an hour, who sat on the stringer-piece and considered the matter of beer at five cents a glass and gone in a moment with nothing to show for it.
	silkworth.net /jack_london/chapter9.html (2701 words)

	Who was Jack London
		Jack’s extensive life experiences included: being a laborer, factory worker, oyster pirate on the San Francisco Bay, member of the California Fish Patrol, sailor, railroad hobo, and gold prospector (in the Klondike from 1897-1898).
		He became an illegal oyster pirate, and before long, had earned the title of “Prince of the Oyster Pirates”; he made more money in one week than he was able to earn in his first full year as a professional writer.
		Realizing that the life of an oyster pirate frequently ended in prison or death, he reformed and became a California Fish Patrol deputy.
	www.getyourwordsworth.com /WORDSWORTH-JackLondon.html (1789 words)

	FLUXEUROPA: JACK LONDON
		But perhaps that should be larger than life, for London's career was every bit as adventurous as his works of fiction.
		Alex Kershaw may be right in attributing London's central motivation to a feeling of insecurity, cloaked by machismo only to be betrayed by alcoholism, but London's experiences as oyster pirate, tramp, gaolbird, prospector, oceanic yachtsman, war correspondent and revolutionary agitator raise him to heroic stature by any standard.
		Although a committed Socialist, London "was aware that mankind's terror has always been its most basic emotion...it has far deeper roots than love, tracing back to the days before history, when man was just another wild, frightened savage." (Pg 125).
	www.fluxeuropa.com /jacklondon.htm (231 words)

	JOHN BARLEYCORN
		pirates, the real heavy drinking came suddenly, and was the
		oysters, and boats, and of the mystery of who had put the load of
		Nelson, who was the most heroic figure among the oyster pirates
	www.americanliterature.com /JB/JB09.HTML (2357 words)

	Drunken Muse: Jack London - Bar America (www.baramerica.com)
		He claimed he had gotten drunk for the first time at age 5, and was a regular drinker in his early teens.
		Yearning for adventure, Jack at 15 was an oyster pirate in San Francisco Bay, went to sea at 17 on a sealing schooner, and had joined the gold rush to the Klondike in 1897 at the age of 23.
		A prolific writer, Jack London has written many works of fiction considered to be masterpieces of literature, including The Sea Wolf, White Fang and The Call of the Wild.
	www.baramerica.com /muse/drinkers/jack_london.html (215 words)

	The Modern Library \| John Barleycorn by Jack London
		Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century.
		But throughout his colorful life–from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassioned socialist, and celebrated writer–he retained a predilection for drinking on a prodigious scale.
		London’s classic "alcoholic memoirs"–the closest thing to an autobiography he ever wrote–are a startlingly honest and vivid account of his life not only as a drinker, but also as a storied adventurer.
	randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375757921 (163 words)

	John Griffith Chaney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He left Berkeley after six months, saying college was "not alive enough." By the time of his death in 1916, London had crammed more life into his 40 years than most people could fit into three lifetimes.
		Among other things, London was a laborer, a factory worker, a coal-shoveller, an oyster pirate on San Francisco Bay, a member of the California Fish Patrol, a sailor, a railroad hobo, a gold prospector, a rancher, and a journalist.
		He reported on the 1904 Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst papers and the 1914 Mexican Revolution for Collier's.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /brthpage/01jan/1-12london.html (340 words)

	Jack London at the Huntington Library-About Jack London
		While still a teen-ager, London was forced to earn money to help support the household.
		He worked at a series of unskilled jobs but constantly sought a way out of the dead-end life of a "work beast." He sailed the waters of San Francisco Bay, first as an oyster pirate, then as a member of the Fish Patrol, apprehending his former comrades in larceny.
		In 1893, at the age of 17, he signed on as a seaman with the seal-hunting vessel Sophie Sutherland.
	www.huntington.org /LibraryDiv/about.html (1012 words)

	California Writers Club - California authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jack London grew up in poverty and supported himself working at a cannery, as an oyster pirate, and as a merchant seaman on a Pacific sealing expedition.
		He read constantly and pushed himself to write a thousand words a day, six days a week.
		His works include: The Call of the Wild, Sea-Wolf, Valley of the Moon, Martin Eden, and White Fang, in addition to dozens of stories and hundreds of articles.
	www.calwriters.org /html/london.html (89 words)

	Midwest Model Boat Kits
		Skill level "2" requires slightly more skill and some experience using hand tools.
		sed along the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina to carry produce down shoal creeks and for hauling oysters from shallow flats.
		Flattie's simple lines made it inexpensive to build.
	www.acrossthepond.net /midwest.htm (497 words)

	AMAsearchdetail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jack London was born in San Francisco, California.
		Throughout the 1890s London spent time as a seaman, a hobo, an oyster pirate, a jute-mill worker, a college student, and a gold miner.
		His successful writing career began in 1900, with a story published in the Atlantic Monthly.
	www.fofweb.com /onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=7056 (106 words)

	Jack London Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He grew up in difficult and deprived circumstances.
		This led him in his early years to earn a modest living as an oyster pirate at fifteen, a worker in a canning factory and at seventeen as a deep-sea sailor.
		He also showed literary promise early, winning $25 for his first story in a competition for the San Francisco Morning Call.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/35 (611 words)

	If Jack Frost had a PDA: Wintry resources for your Palm organizer
		By the time Jack became a young man the family was destitute and survived by moving from one squalid cottage to another in the San Francisco, California area.
		He was a rather celebrated oyster pirate, robbing the great private oyster beds of San Francisco Bay, but later switched his allegiances and became a member of the Fish Patrol to police his former pirate comrades.
		While fiercely bright, he often sank into terrible moods of self-destruction.
	www.palmpower.com /issues/issue199902/bookmonth0299001.html (565 words)

	A2Z Hobbies Picture Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Chesapeake Bay Skipjack - a 48 ft. vessel known as an Oyster Pirate, which was operated by poachers.
		Length 21 in - Beam 4 1/2 in - Height 20 1/2 in - Scale 7/16 in to the foot.
	www.a2zhobbies.com /pichtml/Mid971.html (90 words)

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