The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852 by Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

238 pages first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir reflective medium-paced
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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, blo...

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