They Saw the Elephant Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy "One of the best and most comprehensive accounts of gold rush life to date." --San Francisco Chronicle "A significant contribution to the scholarship of women's studies." --Library Journal "A charming style...an engrossing account." --California Historical Society "Exciting and inspiring...Photographs, letters, and diary accounts contribute to the realism of these adventures." --School Library Journal "An excellent book on a readable subject- and it will last." --Books of the Southwest "For those interested in women's history and in western history, this volume is a must." --Howard F. Lamar, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University

They Saw the Elephant
Women in the California Gold Rush

by JoAnn Levy

University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 0-8061-2473-3 $13.95
265 PAGES, ILLUSTRATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

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