The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852 FIC059000 and Geraldine Brooks

and Geraldine Brooks

and all good officers

The son of a wealthy Hamburg banker

sure that we're responsible for the death of his favored child

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The Shirley Letters: From the California Mines, 1851-1852 FIC059000 and Geraldine BrooksThe 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, bloody deaths, a mob, whippings, a hanging, an attempt at suicide, and a fatal duel" to bars lined with "that eternal crimson calico which flushes the whole social life of the Golden State," and the rare and