JOANN LEVY. Unsettling the West, Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California. Heyday Books. Hardcover, paperback, 343 pages, $16, $3.48, amazon.com
“Unsettling the West is a compelling, eminently readable portrait of two remarkable women, who found in the California frontier not just some freedom from standard notions of propriety but inspiration for even greater reforms.”—San Francisco Chronicle