With
Great Hope, by Mary
O'Brien. Luzena
Stanley Wilson became a gold rush banker, storing gold dust in
bread pans in her camp oven. Mary Graves survived cannibalism
in the Sierras. Madame Moustache lost the love of her life,
and her fortune, in a silver camp in Nevada. A storyteller
wrote about the West to feed her children. This book tells the
fascinating stories of twelve uncommon women, the significant
events of the times, and the everyday occurrences of life in
the gold camps.
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