They Saw the Elephant

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They Saw the Elephant is written by JoAnn Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0806189932 (ISBN 10) and 9780806189932 (ISBN 13).

"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