They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

"The phrase â€™seeing the elephantâ€™ symbolized for â€™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. Levyâ€™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"Ë†Â–San Francisco Chronicle

Country	USA
Brand	University of Oklahoma Press
Manufacturer	University of Oklahoma Press
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	39 illustrations, bibliography, index
IsAdultProduct
Height	9
Length	6
Weight	1.04940036712
Width	0.66
ReleaseDate	1992-09-01
NumberOfItems	1

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