Browne unearths the story of an unjustly obscure 19th-century pioneer in this superb account of the life of Sara Plummer Lemmon (1836-1923). A botanist, artist, teacher, and nurse.  Suffering from pneumonia in 1869, she moved to California, where she started a book collection that eventually became Santa Barbara's first public library. Her paintings of plants led to a founding membership in the Santa Barbara Society of Natural History in 1876. Through that group she met botanist John Lemmon, whom she married in 1880, and with whom she worked to catalog the plants of Arizona and California. Brown is so successful in facilitating engagement with a forgotten figure - the result is a memorable account of an accomplished life.

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