". . . the journal of [Georgiana Bruce Kirby's] eary years in Santa Cruz [California] forms a record not only of one woman's adjustments and adaptations to a new land, but of the trasitions and shaping of the land itself. As such, [this] is a document of extraordinary interest."
" . . . Georgiana's anti-slavery impulses were intensified when, teaching in the Midwest, she was requested to judge the color of her puplis'skin (and segrerate them accordingly) by means of tinted cards. "
" [Georgiana's] life has been skillfully and painstakingly narrated . . . replete with . . . notes, chronology, genealogy, and bibliography. The journal itself has been edited with scrupulous care and scholarship. Short in length but long in significance, it elucisates the life of the West at mid-century [1850s] and it brings to life the woman who lived it."
-From the "Foreword" by Madeleine B. Stern