William Benemann is the author of A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850, Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships, and Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade.
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In its voracious hunger to fill its decks and spars with the bodies of strong young sailors, the nineteenth century US Navy and the commercial maritime industry welcomed eccentrics, criminals, outcasts, and misfits into a community of the marginalized, on... SEE MORE