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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush - Paperback

by Joann Levy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joann LevyPublish date:2018-08-14Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806124735ISBN-10:806124733UPC:9780806124735Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.09 x 6.09 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC0N5Z69N9

"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" -San Francisco Chronicle

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806124735ISBN-10:806124733UPC:9780806124735Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.09 x 6.09 x 0.84 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC0N5Z69N9
Levy, Joann: -

JoAnn Levy is a free-lance writer born and raised in California. She lives in Los Angeles, but is most at home in a mountainside cabin near the Old Okum mine in the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode.

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Joann Levy

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