| by Hunter S. Thompson© 1966, 1967 by Hunter S. Thompson
 
		 To the friends who lent me money and 
		kept me mercifully unemployed. No writer can function without them. 
		Again, thanks. HST  The idea for this book came from 
		Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, who asked me to write an article 
		on the weird phenomenon of motorcycle gangs. The article appeared in The 
		Nation, in Apri11965.  Carey's ideas and suggestions gave the book 
		a framework and perspective that it might not otherwise have had. 
		 The author wishes to thank the 
		following for permission to reprint material: The World of Sex by Henry Miller, Copyright 
		© 1959 by Henry Miller; Copyright © 
		1965 by Grove Press, Inc. Used by permission of Grove Press, Inc. 
		California: The Wild Ones. Copyright © 
		1965, Newsweek, Inc. Used by permission of Newsweek. Inc. The Wilder 
		Ones. Reprinted by permission from Time The Weekly Newsmagazine;
		©Time Inc. 1965.  They Came. 
		They Saw. They Did Not Conquer by William R. Rodgers. Copyright
		© 1963 The Farm Tribune. Used by 
		permission of The Farm Tribune.  Mrs. Pat Whitwright for her letter 
		on page 46. California Takes Steps to Curb Terrorism of Ruffian 
		Cyclists.  © 1966 by the New 
		York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.  "The Bowery 
		Grenadiers," words and music by John Allison. 
		© Copyright 1948, 1957 Hollis Music. 
		Inc., New York, N.Y. Used by permission. "Black Denim Trousers and 
		Motorcycle Boots" by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoner. Copyright
		© 1955 by Quintet Music, Inc. Used 
		by permission. The Hell's Angels Scandals -- Black Boots, Booze, and 
		Highway Broads by Birney Jarvis. Copyright 
		© 1965 by Male Magazine. Used by permission of Male Publishing 
		Corporation.  "A Word of Our Own." Copyright
		© 1965 by Springfield Music, Ltd. 
		Chappell & Co., Inc., owner of publication and allied rights for the 
		Western Hemisphere. "Do-Re-Mi," words and music by Woody Guthrie. 
		Copyright © 1961, 1963, Ludlow 
		Music, Inc., New York, N.Y. Used by permission.  Hell's Angels by 
		William Murray. Copyright © by 
		Curtis Publishing Company, 1965. Used by permission.  Hell's 
		Angels: How They Live and Think by Jerry Cohen. Copyright
		© 1965 by The Times Mirror Company. 
		Used by permission of The Los Angeles Times. "To the Angels" by Allen 
		Ginsberg. Copyright © 1966 
		Liberation. Used by permission of Allen Ginsberg. Mr. Ralph Barger for 
		his telegram on page 323.
 
			
				
					| SAN DIEGO, July 18 (UPI) --
                    A WEIRD HAUL AT GANG'S HIDEOUT  -- Four coffins, two 
					grave markers and Nazi emblems were found Saturday in the 
					headquarters of a motorcycle gang where three members were 
					arrested on narcotics charges. The residence also contained 
					a throne chair five feet tall, a stuffed owl, an Oriental 
					beheading sword and assorted motorcycle trophies, police 
					said. 
					 *** Despite the outlaws' 
					growing notoriety, the Oakland police never put the kind of 
					death-rattle heat on them that the other chapters were 
					getting. Even at the peak of the heat, Barger's chapter had 
					a special relationship with the local law. Barger explained 
					it as a potential common front against the long-rumored 
					Negro uprising in East Oakland, which both Negroes and 
					Hell's Angels think of as their own turf. The cops, he said, 
					were counting on the Angels to
                    "keep the niggers in 
					line." *** 
					  On October 16, the Hell's 
					Angels attacked a Get Out Of Vietnam demonstration at the 
					Oakland-Berkeley border. The existential heroes who had 
					passed the joint with Berkeley liberals at Kesey's parties 
					suddenly turned into venomous beasts, rushing on the same 
					liberals with flailing fists and shouts of "Traitors," 
					"Communists," "Beatniks!" When push came to shove, the 
					Hell's Angels lined up solidly with the cops, the Pentagon 
					and the John Birch Society. 
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