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Six years experience as a book agent in California
Colportage, subscription trade
Real estate development
Booksellers and bookselling
Urbanization
Voyages and travels
Books and reading
Women
Social life and customs
Biography
History
Mrs. James W. Likins (b. ca. 1825) and her family left Akron, Ohio, in 1868 for a fresh start in California. Once there, her husband's illness forced her to become the family breadwinner. Six years experience as a book agent in California (1874) recounts the family's steam voyage and Panama crossing…
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