They saw the elephant : women in the California gold rush /
Levy, Jo Ann, -1941
They saw the elephant : women in the California gold rush / Jo Ann Levy. - Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992 - xxii, 265 p. ill. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
The phrase 'seeing the elephant' symbolized for '49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy's book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date" DEGREES"-San Francisco Chronicle". www.alibris.com
806124733
Frontier and pioneer life--California.
Women pioneers--California
Women--California
F 865 / .L579 1992
They saw the elephant : women in the California gold rush / Jo Ann Levy. - Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992 - xxii, 265 p. ill. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
The phrase 'seeing the elephant' symbolized for '49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush. Levy's book debunks that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history."-Choice "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date" DEGREES"-San Francisco Chronicle". www.alibris.com
806124733
Frontier and pioneer life--California.
Women pioneers--California
Women--California
F 865 / .L579 1992
