SOURCES
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- Matthew Morse Booker, "Oyster Growers and Oyster Pirates in San Francisco Bay," Pacific Historical Review, 75, no. 1 (2006): 63-88.
- Ellsworth D. Foster, "A salt-water mollusk, highly esteemed as an article of food," 1921 (accessed July 14, 2009).
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- James Tice Moore, "Gunfire on the Chesapeake: Governor Cameron and the Oyster Pirates, 1882-1885," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 90, no. 3 (1982) (accessed July 14, 2009).
- Schell and Hogan, "Pirates dredging at night," Harper’s Weekly (March 1884) (accessed July 14, 2009).
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- Lissa Wadewitz, "Pirates of the Salish Sea: Labor, Mobility, and Environment in the Transnational West," Pacific Historical Review, 75, no. 4 (2006): 587-627.
Yo, Ho, Ho and a . . . Bushel of Oysters?
Instructions
With Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19th, students may be rolling their "Arrs." Popular media focuses on pirates pillaging at sea, but pirates didn't limit themselves to the open ocean. Consider these questions on oyster pirates, who made their living thieving shellfish in America's bays.
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