The Farthest Eden — Louise O'Flaherty

To a dusty, flea-ridden pueblo, Los Angeles in 1851, sailed Captain Patrick Donovan with his spirited, headstrong daughter Bets and his sister Mary, who abandoned by her Spanish husband, robbed of her child, but remains upright and proud. They came to settle, fighting for fortune and happiness. "A first-class family saga. . . extremely entertaining." Publishers Weekly