num_pages: 288
description: "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
language: English
title: They Saw the Elephant
titlecomplete: They Saw the Elephant
genres: Research, American History, Womens, Biography, History, Nonfiction, Adventure
ratings_count: 145
publisher: OU Press