| LC control no. | no 00045899 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3602.A775375 |
| Personal name heading | Barger, Ralph |
| Variant(s) | Barger, Sonny |
| Located | California |
| Birth date | 1938-10-08 |
| Death date | 2022-06-29 |
| Place of birth | Modesto (Calif.) |
| Place of death | California |
| Field of activity | Motorcycling American fiction |
| Affiliation | Hell's Angels |
| Profession or occupation | Motorcyclists Novelists |
| Found in | Hell's Angel, c2000: t.p. (Ralph "Sonny" Barger) Washington post WWW site, viewed June 30, 2022 (in obituary dated June 30, 2022: Sonny Barger, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, died June 29 at his home in California. He was 83. Mr. Barger stood not only as the founder of the original Oakland, Calif., Angels chapter in 1957, but for decades after that also as the public face of a nationwide counterculture tribe. Ralph Hubert Barger Jr. was born in Modesto, Calif., on Oct. 8, 1938. Mr. Barger published two novels, "Dead in 5 Heartbeats" (2003) and "6 Chambers, 1 Bullet" (2006)) |
| Associated language | eng |
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