Eliza Burhans Franham, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State

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Eliza Burhans Franham tried to reform the Female Prison at Sing Sing during the three years she served as the matron. When she was discharged from the post, she learned that her husband, a lawyer in California, had died, leaving her with affairs to be settled. Eliza organized a partly of single, educated women to join her voyage around the Horn. This data opens with a description of the pioneer women's exciting travel around the Horn in 1849. In 1850 she moved with her children to El Rancho La Libertad, the farm in Santa Cruz that her husband left for her. This narrative describes her experience as a farmer, the position women had in California, mining, survivors of the Donner Expedition, and the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 176. [database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 2000. Farnham, Eliza Woodson Burhans. California, In-doors and Out; or, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State. New York: Dix, Edwards, 1856.

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