Boyle Heights and Beyond: Rochlin tells how ambivalent memories of her denigrated natal neighborhood, Boyle Heights, then the largest multicultural community in Los Angeles, led to a search for her Jewish roots in the Far West. Years of research—her own and others—led to the discovery of a Jewry born and bred on the democratic western frontier, and an ensuing far western Jewish migration, currently numbering 1.3 million strong. A Jewry, in Rochlin’s view, destined to find its voice and mission in the pluralistic twenty-first century.

My Mother-in-Law's Kitchen: A profile of Russian-Jewish Annie Shapiro Rochlin who joined her husband on the Arizona-Sonora border in 1917. She was forty, spoke only Yiddish, and had three small children. By 1923, she was the mother of five, speaking English, Spanish, and Yiddish, driving a car, and cooking Ameri-Jew-Mex.

Brides for Brethren: What sensible Jewish woman would marry a Jewish Arizona pioneer and join him in the Arizona Territory when it was nicknamed "the nation's roughhouse?" Rochlin tells why, when, how these women ventured into the Arizona Territory, also who stayed, and who didn't.

Isaac Bashevis Singer in Los Angeles: This prolific, Nobel-prizewinning novelist, traveled the world speaking on his best-selling works and related Jewish issues. In the 1960s, he frequently came to Los Angeles. Intensely interested in Jewish life in the West, Singer visited the Rochlin family, discussed in his inimitable style Jewish life, literature, and vegetarian eating habits.

The Earps: Josie and Wyatt's 47-Year Odyssey: In the 1990s, a new swarm of Wyatt Earp biographers challenged the validity of I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, collected and edited by Glenn G. Boyer. Its publishers, the University of Arizona Press, ultimately removed the work from its list. Separating the documentable from the questionable, Rochlin presents her view of the legendary lawman's legendary lady.