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title	:	Apron Full of Gold : The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier From San Francisco, 1849-1856
author	:	Megquier, Mary Jane.; Kaufman, Polly Welts
publisher	:	University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin	:	0826315003
print isbn13	:	9780826315007
ebook isbn13	:	9780585187303
language	:	English
subject	Voyages to the Pacific Coast, California--Gold discoveries, Frontier and pioneer life--California, Megquier, Mary Jane,--1813-1899--Correspondence, Pioneers--California--Correspondence, Women pioneers--California--Correspondence.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	F865.M45 1994eb
ddc	:	979.4/6104/092
subject	:	Voyages to the Pacific Coast, California--Gold discoveries, Frontier and pioneer life--California, Megquier, Mary Jane,--1813-1899--Correspondence, Pioneers--California--Correspondence, Women pioneers--California--Correspondence.

Page i Apron Full of Gold

Page ii Mary Jane Megquier, before 1849 {1993}.

Page iii Apron Full of Gold The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco 1849-1856 Second Edition Edited & with an Introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman Introduction to the First Edition by Robert Glass Cleland UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE

Page iv 1949 by the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery Second edition published by the University of New Mexico Press by arrangement with the Huntington Library. Introduction to the second edition 1994 by the University of New Mexico Press. The letters of Mary Jane and Thomas L. Megquier are reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Megquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899. Apron full of gold : the letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856 / edited by Robert Glass Cleland : introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman. 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8263- 500-3 (paperback) I. Voyages to the Pacific Coast. 2. CaliforniaGold discoveries. 3. Frontier and pioneer lifeCalifornia. 4. Magquier, Mary Jane, 1813-1899-Correspondence. 5. Pioneers-CaliforniaCorrespondence. 6. Woman pioneerCaliforniaCorrespondence. I. Cleland, Robert Glass, 1885-1957. II. Title. F865.M45 1994 979.4'6104'092dc20 9329907 {B} CIP Designed by Linda Mae Tratechaud

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Page vii Contents Illustrations ix Introduction to the Second Edition Polly Welts Kaufman xi Introduction to The First Edition Robert Glass Cleland xxvii Chapter I. First Journey: From Maine to San Francisco via Panama, December 1848 to January 1851 Mary Jane Megquier & Thomas L. Megquier 1 Chapter II. Second Journey: To San Francisco via Nicaragua, April 1852 to March 1854 Mary Jane Megquier & Thomas L. Megquier 75 Chapter III. Third Journey: San Francisco, November 1855 to June 1856 Mary Jane Megquier 139 Index 169

Page ix Illustrations Mary Jane Megquier, before 1849, from a Daguerreotype {1993} Frontispiece Needlework by Mary Jane Cole {Megquier}, 1824 {1993} xiii Four Generations of Cole Women, about 1856, from a Glass Negative {1993} xxii Portable Iron House, Advertisement in J.E. Sherwood's Pocket Guide to California, 1849 5 Thomas L. and Mary Jane Megquier, from a Daguerreotype, Early 1850s {1993} 11 Angeline, John Otis, and Arthur Selwyn Megquier, from a Daguerreotype, Early 1850s {1993} 18 View of San Francisco, February 1850, Letterhead Lithographed in Gold 51 Great Fire in San Francisco, May 4, 1850, Lithographed Letterhead 54 Execution of Jos Forni, December 10, 1852, Lithographed Letterhead 111 Lola Has Come! Contemporary Lithograph 128 Gilson and Megquier Families, from a Daguerreotype, 1854 {1993} 134 Breakfasting on Shore, Lithograph from Letts, Pictorial View of California, 1853 142

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