They Saw the Elephant

Women in the California Gold Rush

JoAnn Levy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

1992 | New edition
University of Oklahoma Press (Verlag)
9780806124735 (ISBN)

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The phrase "seeing the elephant" symbolised for '49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequalled 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 sets out to debunk that myth. Here a variety of women travel, work, and write their way across the pages of western migrant history. Levy's narrative is enhanced by revealing quotations from so many little known women diarists and from guide books that it serves as a source and reference book as well. For those interested in women's history and in western history, this volume should be valuable.

JoAnn Levy is a free-lance writer born and raised in California. She lives in Los Angeles, but is most at home in a mountainside cabin near the Old Okum mine in the Sierra Nevada Mother Lode.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.1992
Zusatzinfo	39 illustrations, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Oklahoma
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780806124735 / 9780806124735
Zustand	Neuware