They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

ISBN-13: 9780806124735 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Jo Ann Levy

Opis

"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"