Sisters of Fortune: Being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England and raised their younger brother while their ... fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush
By Unknown Author.
Description
In 1850 , James Wilson, a widowed congressman from Keene, New Hampshire, left his three daughters and young son to seek his fortune in the California gold rush. During his twelve year absence, the daughters wrote their father almost 350 letters filled with accounts of daily life and lively observations on local and national events. The daughters -- Mary Elizabeth, 24, Annie, 18, and Charlotte, 16, when their father left -- were conventional, upper-middle-class young women struggling to keep up appearances in a society that accorded them few rights. These letters and the story they tell cons...
ISBN(s)
087451651X, 9780874516517
