“As always occurs to the mind of a woman, I thought of taking boarders.”

This book feels like Gallagher is busy trying to fill in all the blank spots left by those male historians when they ignored the other half of the race. Like when 1849’s Luzena Stanley Wilson’s husband dumps her and their four children in Sacramento and she moves to the felicitously named Coyote Droppings on the…

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