The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue
1. “Now I Am at the Jumping Off Place”
2. “Perhaps You’ve Heard Our Sadie Was Killed”
3. “It Is Like Death to Me to Be Idle”
4. “A Great Botanist from the Sierras”
5. “My Dear, Soul-Knit Brother”
6. “Into the Matrimonial Vortex!”
7. “Try to Touch the Heart of Santa Catalina”
8. “An Extreme Outpost of Civilized Life”
9. “Eleven Days of Dungeon Life”
10. “Happy in Our Work & in Each Other”
11. “Rushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town”
12. “A Botanical Paradise”
13. “Considered by Less Ambitious a Fine Season’s Work”
14. “Lives Cast in Pleasant Places”
15. “Grandest Display the World Has Ever Known”
16. “Our Hillock in Cholame”
17. “Life, to Me, Seems Sweeter Each Year”
18. “The Narrowest Escape from Instant Death”
19. “Sell Everything and Move to California!”
20. “A Sweet, Sacred Togetherness”
21. “Wish We Were Out in the Wild Woods”
22. “Safe—Tho’ Tremendously Shaken”
23. “I Feel So Helpless and Alone”
24. “Partners in Botany”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography