Harriet was born in my mind during a three day sabbatical on Long Boat Key, Florida. While walking up the lonely shore in 2004, I began to envision a life in the wilderness and what it would have been like at the turn of the century for a young woman living by herself. Spying a very fat sea gull on the beach, I stopped to photograph it and out of my mouth came the words, “Dang, you are big!” Never having used the word “dang” before, I could not imagine where it had come from. I would soon learn. That following autumn, I visited my sister who had recently bought a home in the foothills of Lake Tahoe in a small, former gold mining and lumber town by the name of Foresthill, California. I was immediately drawn to the area and began gathering as much information as I could regarding its colorful history and the role it played during the huge migration of gold seekers who traveled west to try and find their fame and fortunes in the red hills of the area. It was shortly thereafter that I began to think about what it must have been like for the families who survived the 49ers and began formulating what would become the “Harriet Murphy Stories.”
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