Yo-ho-ho! It's talk like a pirate day, but up here on the Sixth Floor you'd better be keeping it quiet-like matey, or it'll be walkin' the plank for you! Besides we'd rather talk about pirates. Case in point: "the last of the buccaneers," San Francisco pirate William H. "Bully" Hayes, a notoriously unpleasant man who received his nickname from the way he treated his crew. It is said that he met his end when Peter "Dutch Pete" Radeck, his ship's cook, mutinied, killing him and unceremoniously throwing his body overboard.
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While many of the early San Francisco newspapers carried stories about this rogue, you can use your San Francisco Public Library card to access the San Francisco Chronicle Historical database and read articles about him online. The Chronicle's "Drift from the Seven Seas" article from June 8, 1913 recounts how "Bully" Hayes sailed out of the Golden Gate aboard the Otranto which he acquired with typical underhandedness.
Read the full story in the Chronicle Historical Archive. (Note: You will need to use your San Francisco Public Library card to follow the link.)
Find more information library booty on pirates at the San Francisco Public Library!
Bully Hayes, South Sea Pirate by Basil Lubbock (1931)
History of the buccaneers of America by James Burney (1891)
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