Apron full of gold; the letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849 - 1856. Second Edition, Edited & with an Introduction by Polly Welts kaufman. Introduction to the first edition by Robert Glass Cleland
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. Paperback. xxx, 172p., illustrations from old cuts &c; softbound, 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps, an as-new copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Mary Jane (Cole) Megquier was, according to family tradition, "the first American woman to cross the Isthmus", ran a successful boardinghouse in..... More
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