70 The Egg Wars

Published: May 9, 2017, 4:15 p.m.

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A hidden Gold Rush kitchen when food was scarce and men died for eggs\\u2026 We travel out to the forbidding Farallon Islands, 27 miles outside San Francisco\\u2019s Golden Gate, home to the largest seabird colony in the United States, where in the 1850s egg hunters gathered over 3 million eggs, nearly stripping the island bare, to feed the ever-growing migration of newcomers lured by the Gold Rush.

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