Joann Levy: 1 book
They Saw the Elephant
Women in the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
"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....
