Unsettling the West

by Levy, Jo Ann

• ISBN13: 9781890771836
• ISBN10: 189077183X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Heyday Books

Summary

Two friends, both independent and opinionated, shake up the masculine West.

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	vii
Foreword	ix
Preface	xv
This Singular Woman	1	(6)
Sing Sing Prison	7	(13)
A Restless Woman	20	(11)
Valparaiso	31	(9)
San Francisco	40	(7)
Santa Cruz	47	(7)
Trials and Humiliations	54	(6)
Summer 1850	60	(9)
Geordie	69	(7)
Agricultural Operations	76	(7)
A Last Holiday	83	(8)
Observations	91	(6)
March 23, 1852	97	(8)
Babies	105	(7)
Heartache	112	(7)
Tickets at the Door	119	(7)
Prison Report	126	(6)
Sacramento and Beyond	132	(11)
The First by a Lady	143	(12)
Women's Protective Emigration Society	155	(10)
Woman's Appropriate Sphere	165	(9)
Seldom the Best Intellects	174	(4)
To G. B. K.	178	(6)
A Spiritualist Season	184	(8)
Exalted Possibilities	192	(9)
Stockton	201	(12)
Gettysburg	213	(8)
The Great Work	221	(10)
Unfaltering and Fearless	231	(8)
Sweet Recollection	239	(6)
Fighting for Suffrage	245	(12)
A Mother's Influence	257	(10)
...But Not Forgotten	267	(9)
Notes	276	(43)
Bibliography	319	(10)
Acknowledgements	329	(2)
Index	331	(15)
About the Author	346