TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy, Jo Ann,
TI  - They saw the elephant: women in the California gold rush 
SN  - 806124733
AV  - F 865 .L579 1992
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Norman, Okla.
PB  - University of Oklahoma Press
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - California
KW  - Women pioneers
KW  - Women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -