Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. These are true stories, with some of my own fabrication of descriptive details. Thank you to Columbia Mercantile 1855 and The Chop Shop of Jamestown. Work Cited PBS The Land of Gold and Hope Fascinating Women in California History By Alton Pryor La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman By Alfredo Mirandé, Evangelina Enríquez Ghost Towns of the West By Philip Varney, Jim Hinckley Hunting for Gold by Major William Downie Life in the California Gold Fields by William Swain 1850 The Hanging of Juanita: The Only Woman to Be Lynched in California Yesterday’s Crimes: Lynching a Woman in Gold Country The only lynching of a woman in California history inspired SF Opera's Girls of the Golden West. by Bob Calhoun • The Tale of Josefa Hannah Kohler A History of Mexican Americans in California: HISTORIC SITES When Americans Lynched Mexicans By William D. Carrig...