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Come in, enjoy a cup of coffee, and sit a spell with Harriet Murphy as
she regales you with her tales of family, life, and love in the early
1900's in the former gold mining town of Old Pine near Lake Tahoe in
Northern California. This is a period in U.S. history of great
mechanical and cultural inventions as well as a time for women
attempting to gain their well deserved right to vote.
Her tales revolve around a woman living alone in the hills of the Sierra
Nevada with her horse, Pager, and a myriad of other wonderful and
colorful characters. Her humble abode is the log cabin that her father
built for her family soon after he came across the country in the great
gold rush of 1849. Although he never struck it rich in the mines, he
found it a unique, yet ideal, place to live and care for his wife and
daughter, Henrietta.
The Hardcover version of this book includes 8 pages of pictures of the
Sutter's Mill area of California.
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