1994 University of New Mexico Press trade paperback, Polly Welts Kaufman (Editor). Megquier made three trips to California, via Panama and Nicaragua. Her husband was a physician and she ran a boarding house. Her letters describe life in San Francisco. - Google Books First published in 1949, this collection of letters reveal the life of Megquier, who offers a woman's firsthand account of the San Francisco Gold Rush. For this edition, editor Kaufman has tracked down additional information about Megquier's life after 1856, when the letters cease. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Used Book in Good Condition