They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

JoAnn Levy

288 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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