They saw the elephant : women in the California gold rush / Jo Ann Levy.
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TextPublication details: Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992Description: xxii, 265 p. ill. 23 cmISBN: - 806124733
- F 865 .L579 1992
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Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center | F 865 .L579 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 9ALRC201101830 |
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
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