Mary Ballou
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| Mary Ballou | |
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| Born | 1809 |
| Died | 1894 |
| Occupation | Boardinghouse proprietress |
| Nationality | American (United States) |
| Writing period | 1852 |
| Subjects | Letters and observations |
Mary Ballou (1809-94). Known for her collection of letters, I Hear the Hogs in My Kitchen, (1852, later published in 1962) Mary Ballou gave personal insight into pioneer life. With her husband, Ballou left her New Hampshire home for California, not in search of gold to be mined, but money to be made off those doing the mining. The Ballous ran a lucrative boarding house in Negro Bar, CA, and her letters describe the antics of the miners she housed, as well as the unique experience of being a woman in Gold Rush Era California.
[edit] Further reading
Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West 1849-1900 ed. Christiane Fischer (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1977)
Radio script from I Hear the Hogs in My Kitchen
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