California, in-doors and out; or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State
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California, in-doors and out; or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State
- Publication date
- 1856
- Topics
- Donner Party, Women -- California, Urbanization -- California, Law -- Political aspects -- California, Mines and mineral resources -- California, Agriculture -- California, Agriculture, Gold mines and mining, Law -- Political aspects, Mines and mineral resources, Travel, Urbanization, Women, California -- Description and travel, California -- Gold discoveries, California
- Publisher
- New York, Dix, Edwards & Co.
- Collection
- americana
- Book from the collections of
- Harvard University
- Language
- English
xiv, 508 pages 19 cm
During her three years as matron of the Female Prison at Sing Sing, 1844-1848, Eliza Burhans Farnham (1815-1864) tried to institute reforms based on phrenology. Discharged from the post, she soon learned that her lawyer-husband had died in California, leaving her with affairs to settle there. Farnham set about organizing a pioneer party of single, educated women to join her in the voyage round the Horn. California, in-doors and out (1856) opens with a description of her harrowing voyage round the Horn in 1849. In 1850 Farnham and her children moved to El Rancho La Libertad, the Santa Cruz farm left to her by her husband. She describes her experiences as a farmer, the position of women in California, mining life, the history of the Donner Expedition based on interviews with survivors, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee
"The Donner emigration of 1846": pages 380-457
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During her three years as matron of the Female Prison at Sing Sing, 1844-1848, Eliza Burhans Farnham (1815-1864) tried to institute reforms based on phrenology. Discharged from the post, she soon learned that her lawyer-husband had died in California, leaving her with affairs to settle there. Farnham set about organizing a pioneer party of single, educated women to join her in the voyage round the Horn. California, in-doors and out (1856) opens with a description of her harrowing voyage round the Horn in 1849. In 1850 Farnham and her children moved to El Rancho La Libertad, the Santa Cruz farm left to her by her husband. She describes her experiences as a farmer, the position of women in California, mining life, the history of the Donner Expedition based on interviews with survivors, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee.
- Addeddate
- 2008-08-17 05:39:45
- Associated-names
- Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
- Copyright-region
- US
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- californiaindoo00farngoog
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t3bz6c46w
- Lccn
- rc 01000780
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- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.14
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL23529338M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL255129W
- Page_number_confidence
- 93.12
- Pages
- 545
- Possible copyright status
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Scandate
- 20060918
- Scanner
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 1300522
- Year
- 1856
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