The BookSeller

<p>In the summer of 1885 a bookstore opened in San Francisco. Among its customers are:</p><p>A young man with a strange gift for drawing people to him.</p><p>A woman who wants to become a doctor in 1885 America a daunting ambition.</p><p>A man who spent the first half of his life as a slave the other half wandering around feeling free.</p><p>A woman orphaned by the murder of her family in a gold rush camp who thirty-five years later still carries a Bowie knife behind her belt.</p><p>A blind girl with a phenomenal memory.</p><p>A half-Kiowa half-Cheyenne Indian trying to fit in a white world.</p><p>A woman who raised two children while running a store in the Wyoming wilderness fifty miles from her closest neighbor.</p><p>A gentle giant from a farm in Minnesota.</p><p>And the proprietor of the fanciest whore house in San Francisco during the gold rush who marries rich and become the wealthiest widow on the Pacific Slope.</p><p>These and others are part of a story of San Francisco in the late 19th century and how people can change the world around them by doing what they believe is right. </p>