Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California by Jeanne Farr McDonnell

Juana Briones of Nineteenth-Century California

Jeanne Farr McDonnell

288 pages first pub 2008 (view editions)

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Juana Briones de Miranda lived an unusual life, which is wonderfully recounted in this highly accessible biography. She was one of the first residents of what is now San Francisco, then named Yerba Buena (Good Herb), reportedly after a medicinal t...

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