Original Wild Ones Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club

Name: Original Wild Ones Tales of the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club
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ISBN: 9780760335376

ISBN-10: 0760335370

ISBN-13: 9780760335376

Edition: 2009

Authors: Bill Hayes, Jim Quattlebaum, Dave Nichols

List price: $24.99

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Get an inside look at the real beginning of outlaw biker culture with this ldquo;raucous and heartfelt recounting of the early days of biker clubsrdquo; (Roadbike). The story starts one weekend in 1947, at a motorcycle race in Hollister, California. A few members of one club, the no-holds-barred ldquo;Boozefighters,rdquo; got a little juiced up and took their racing to the street. Word of the fracas spread, and soon enoughLifemagazine was on hand to tell the world, with sensational (albeit posed) pictures of the outlaws. And then the ldquo;Hollister riotrdquo; made its way into the movies, immortalized in Marlon Brandorsquo;s ldquo;The Wild One.rdquo; What was the reality behind the myth?…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date: 2/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Born in Minneapolis in 1961 and raised in Spokane, Bill Hayes studied writing at Santa Clara University & has worked for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Library Foundation, & the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. His work has been published in "The New York Times Magazine", "Details", & Salon.com, among other publications.