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Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780613092975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead about the daring women of the Yukon during the gold rushes between the 1880s and early 1900s, and learn about the unique contributions each woman made.
Author: JoAnn Levy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-07-10
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0806189959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Melanie J. Mayer
Publisher: Swallow Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher: Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780882404844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead about the daring women of the Yukon during the gold rushes between the 1880s and early 1900s, and learn about the unique contributions each woman made.
Author: Robert W. Cherny
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0803236085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: JoAnn Levy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-07-17
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0806189932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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
Author: Frances Backhouse
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.
Author: Sally Zanjani
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000-09-01
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780803299160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKprospectors for the first time. Sally Zanjani depicts more than one hundred women prospectors in often grueling, financially unrewarding, and utterly lonely efforts to strike it rich from the desert Southwest to the frozen rocks of Alaska and the Yukon. She tells their stories with warmth and skill and, in bringing them to life, forever changes our mental picture of the women who helped shape the modern West.
Author: Lael Morgan
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMorgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.
Author: Susan G. Butruille
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781886609143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrates the lives and evokes the voices of the women of all races who were involved in the Mother Lode region of California during the Gold Rush, artfully blending in their journals, songs, history, poetry, and recipes.
