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Book reviews notes from mother lode reminiscences
Jessie Fremont recounts frontier life in 1850s California in a memoir edited by Shirley Sargent and Lewis Osborne. The volume reprints letters from Bear Valley and Las Mariposas, detailing ruffian violence, Yosemite visits, and high society guests. Also reviewed Nootka Sound account by Mozino, Grimm mythography, Heady ecology study, and El Paso streetcar return with Salt Lake postage machine update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Benson Fremont
Shirley Sargent
Lewis Osborne
Ashland
Ore
Jessie Fremont
Bear Valley
Mariposa
California
San Francisco
Jesse Fremont
Thomas Hart Bendon
Missouri
John Charles Fremont
Las Mariposas
Fremont
Mexico
U.S
Jessie ‘Fremont
Yosemite
Horace Greeley
Richard Dana
Jessie
Stockton
Iremont
Far West
Jose Mariano Mozino
Nootka Sound
Vancouver Island
Mozino
Jakob Grimm
Dover
Brothers Grimm
N. High Meadow
Eleanor and
Harold T. Heady
Grosset