Harriet Murphy
Subtitle: A Little Bit of Something
Contributors: Janet K. Brennan - Author; John Newlin - Photographer; Robin Creager - Photographer
Edition: First
Publisher: Casa de Snapdragon
Published: March 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque, NM
Language: eng
Format: trade cloth
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780979307560
Genres: historical fiction
First sentence: How truly wonderful to find such down to earth stories about a woman
of great strength of character!
Description: Come in, enjoy a cup of coffee, and sit a spell with Harriet Murphy as she regales you with her tales of family, life, and love in the early 1900's in the former gold mining town of Old Pine near Lake Tahoe in Northern California. This is a period in U.S. history of great mechanical and cultural inventions as well as a time for women attempting to gain their well deserved right to vote.

Her tales revolve around a woman living alone in the hills of the Siera Nevada with her horse, Pager, and a myriad of other wonderful and colorful characters. Her humble abode is the log cabin that her father built for her family soon after he came across the country in the great gold rush of 1849. Although he never struck it rich in the mines, he found it a unique, yet ideal, place to live and care for his wife and daughter, Henrietta