Shirley Letters : From the Calfornia Mines, 1850-1852
Heyday Books, March 1998. Trade Paperback. The Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare--a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, from accounts of "murders, fearful accidents, bloody deaths.....