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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush [Buy it!] | Levy, JoAnn | USD 6.00 (Thu Jun 6 20:24:22 2024) | Abebooks | Generations Press | ISBN10: 0806124733, ISBN13: 9780806124735, [publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma] Softcover The author writes of her frustration of not finding anything about women in books about the Gold Rush, so she wrote one herself. After scouring published books and unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries, memoirs, and newspapers, she grouped her stories of women in the California Gold Rush in 10 chapters: Over the Plains; Across the Sea; Home Sweet Home; Ashes to Ashes; Working Women; Free To Be; All The World's a Stage; Improper Society; Love and Marriage; and Weaving the Social Fabric. Includes a bibliography and index. Illustrated throughout with black & white photos, drawings, paintings and maps. 6 x 9 inches, 265 pages. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page: "Carolyn Casavan Her Book ----- 99 -----" [Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992] Show/Hide image |