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

They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush

by JoAnn Levy


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9 Hrs. 30 Min.

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Many of the women shared the same eagerness for adventure as the men (in contrast to the conventional image of the long-suffering martyr accompanying her husband). Levy intersperses her text with excerpts from diaries and journals and concludes with brief biographies of 17 women participants.

The book is published by University of Oklahoma Press.


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