Man Without a Conscience — Jim Duggins

In 1852 and every year for the next ten years, 50,000 men and 1800 men rushed to the gold fields of California and the silver mines of Nevada. The chaos and squalor of these young migrants who'd left their morals with their families back east can only be compared to an all night saloon on a Saturday night. They fought and cussed, stole from one another, attacked and killed each other and every morning the San Francisco Bay washed a fresh catch of cadavers ashore.