Download or read book Family and Divorce in California, 1850-1890 written by Robert L. Griswold and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few of the men and women who came to California after the discovery of gold had the opportunity or the inclination to record their thoughts about family life. Their family experience, like that of most nineteenth-century Americans, is obscured by time and an absence of sources.