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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

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 | #641606 in Books |  2014-09-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.72 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An amazing, detailed history of the Gold Rush time period ...|By ksw1kvpog|An amazing, detailed history of the Gold Rush time period in California. Even though the book's theme is the participation of women in the Gold Rush, this book is a surprisingly complete look at the travel to California and as well as the entire society and living conditions during this energetic time w|From Publishers Weekly|In the literature of the Gold Rush, women have been generally neglected. Freelance writer Levy here corrects that oversight with a colorful account of intrepid female argonauts--with and without men. She draws on letters, journals and remi

"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

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