1860: Barbary Coast, San Francisco. So I had my contacts. I had my laundries. I had my catering jobs. I had my identities. I had myself my own growing staff of domestics. I was setting up a stable of prominent men who had no idea they were my stable: Senator Latham. The Woodworth brothers. Mr. Willlam Ralston.
Chapter 16: Mary Ellen Pleasant, Lisette Flohr
New city. New rules. New opportunities.