A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton is a look into a historical 19th-century San Francisco scandal. Atherton writes fascinating commentary on Hispanic and Anglo society. Excerpt: “Two horses were laboriously pulling a carriage through the dense thickets and over the sandhills which in the early Sixties still made an ugly breach between San Francisco and its Presidio. The difficulties of the course were not abridged by the temper of the night, which was torn with wind and muffled in black.”
