Missy
By: Chris Hannan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780374199838
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Missy is laudanum, or liquid opium. Missy is Dol McQueen, a nineteen-year-old "flash-girl" traveling the arduous wagon trail from San Francisco to the boomtowns of the Sierra Nevada. Her purpose: to fleece the silver miners and to have a marvelous time.