Women played prominent roles during Stocktons growth from gold rush tent city to California leader in transportation; agriculture and manufacturing. Heiresses reigned in the citys nineteenth-century mansions. In the twentieth century; women fought for suffrage and helped start local colleges; run steamship lines; build food empires and break the school districts color barrier. Writers like Sylvia Sun Minnick and Maxine Hong Kingston chronicled the town. Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers. Harriet Chalmers Adams caught the travel bug on walks with her father; and Dawn Mabalon rescued the history of the Filipino population. Join Mary Jo Gohlke; news writer turned librarian; as she eloquently captures the stories of twenty-two triumphant and successful women who led a little river city into state prominence.
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