Unsettling the West

by Levy, Jo Ann; Starr, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9781890771850
• ISBN10: 1890771856
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Heyday Books

Summary

By the end of 1849, an estimated thirty-nine thousand gold-seekers had arrived in San Francisco by sea, and some thirty thousand others had crossed the continent on land. Another eighty-six thousand would arrive in 1850. According to the census for that year. there were twelve men for every woman in California. But who would want them? The words "gold rush" generate at best an image of raucous, all-male camaraderie, at worst a storm of lawless and irredeemable violence.

Author Biography

JoAnn Levy is the author of the now-classic They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. Her first work of fiction. Daughter of Joy: A Woman of the West Novel of gold rush San Francisco, won the 1999 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction. A second novel. For California's Gold, received the prize in 2001 after debuting at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where Levy spoke in honor of Women's History Month and California's statehood sesquicentennial. She is a frequent speaker on behalf of the gold-rushing women she discovered in nearly a decade of research, and she has been featured in numerous television documentaries. She lives and writes in Sutter Creek, in the heart of California's gold country

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
This Singular Woman	p. 1
Sing Sing Prison	p. 7
A Restless Woman	p. 20
Valparaiso	p. 31
San Francisco	p. 40
Santa Cruz	p. 47
Trials and Humiliations	p. 54
Summer 1850	p. 60
Geordie	p. 69
Agricultural Operations	p. 76
A Last Holiday	p. 83
Observations	p. 91
March 23, 1852	p. 97
Babies	p. 105
Heartache	p. 112
Tickets at the Door	p. 119
Prison Report	p. 126
Sacramento and Beyond	p. 132
The First by a Lady	p. 143
Women's Protective Emigration Society	p. 155
Woman's Appropriate Sphere	p. 165
Seldom the Best Intellects	p. 174
To G. B. K.	p. 178
A Spiritualist Season	p. 184
Exalted Possibilities	p. 192
Stockton	p. 201
Gettysburg	p. 213
The Great Work	p. 221
Unfaltering and Fearless	p. 231
Sweet Recollection	p. 239
Fighting for Suffrage	p. 245
A Mother's Influence	p. 257
...But Not Forgotten	p. 267
Notes	p. 276
Bibliography	p. 319
Acknowledgements	p. 329
Index	p. 331
About the Author	p. 346
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