They Saw the Elephant

Women in the California Gold Rush

Author: Jo Ann Levy
ISBN: 9780806124735

"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"ˆ–San Francisco Chronicle

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publish Date: 1992

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Biography & Autobiography / Gay & Lesbian, History / United States / State & Local / General, Social Science / Gay Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: History)