The Historian · Ethan · San Francisco
Alcatraz Island
I take the night tour when I bring historians from outside the city. The federal prison narrative is well-maintained and compelling.
The island in the bay that served as a Civil War military prison, a federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963, and the site of the 1969–1971 Native American occupation — the founding event of the modern American
— Ethan, The Historian
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