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They Saw the Elephant

Books | Biography & Autobiography / Women

JoAnn Levy
"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
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Author
JoAnn Levy
Pages
288
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Published Date
2013-07-10
ISBN
0806189959 9780806189956

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