If you want a story of how it really was in the California gold rush grab this book. Told by a tough young girl who grew up in a house of fallen doves. Jumped on a wagon train when only 15 to escape that kind of life.

Kept a diary and describes how it really was long ago in Hangtown and old San Francisco. Told how it really was in the glory days of the Wild West of long ago. Like how ladies in a wagon train attend to embarrassing necessities.

Come along. A wild ride.