Notes

1. Karen Hess, Historical Notes in What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, by Abby Fisher (San Francisco: 1881, fac. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1995), 91.

2. Fisher, 1.

3. Fisher, 16–19.

4. Hess, 83.

5. Hess, 75.

6. See tobacco.org’s Tobacco Timeline.

7. Bobnolan-sop.net includes biographies and discographies of cowboy songwriters, including Tim Spencer, who wrote “Cigareets, Whusky, and Wild, Wild Women.”

8. Wikipedia has accurate histories of both the rotary press and QWERTY.

9. California Historical Society, Women in Printing & Publishing in California, 1850-1940. Introduction by Patricia L. Keats (San Francisco: California Historical Society, 2001).