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    • California, in-doors and out; or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State. By Eliza W. Farnham

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    CALIFORNIA,

    IN-DOORS AND OUT;

    OR.

    How we Farm, Mine, and Live generally

    IN THE

    GOLDEN STATE.

    BY

    ELIZA W. FARNHAM.
    It is a goodly land, my lord, of richest stores
    And most delightsome ways. The pleasant sky
    Doth never weep upon't thro' all the sunny
    Summer months.
    Ay, but knowest thou not, good Jacques,
    That e'en with precious stores, and smiling skies,
    And beauteous earth, there lacketh much.

    PERU.--AN OLD PLAY.

    NEW YORK:

    DIX, EDWARDS & CO., 321 BROADWAY.

    1856.




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    rc01-780. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress. Copyright status not determined.

    During her three years as matron of the Female Prison at Sing Sing, 1844-1848, Eliza Burhans Farnham (1815-1864) tried to institute reforms based on phrenology. Discharged from the post, she soon learned that her lawyer-husband had died in California, leaving her with affairs to settle there. Farnham set about organizing a pioneer party of single, educated women to join her in the voyage round the Horn. California, in-doors and out (1856) opens with a description of her harrowing voyage round the Horn in 1849. In 1850 Farnham and her children moved to El Rancho La Libertad, the Santa Cruz farm left to her by her husband. She describes her experiences as a farmer, the position of women in California, mining life, the history of the Donner Expedition based on interviews with survivors, and the 1856 San Francisco Vigilance Committee.

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