Unsettling the West Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California

JoAnn Levy is the author of the now-classic They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. Her first work of fiction. Daughter of Joy: A Woman of the West Novel of gold rush San Francisco, won the 1999 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction. A second novel. For California's Gold, received the prize in 2001 after debuting at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where Levy spoke in honor of Women's History Month and California's statehood sesquicentennial. She is a frequent speaker on behalf of the gold-rushing women she discovered in nearly a decade of research, and she has been featured in numerous television documentaries. She lives and writes in Sutter Creek, in the heart of California's gold countryLevy, Jo Ann is the author of 'Unsettling the West Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California', published 2004 under ISBN 9781890771836 and ISBN 189077183X.