They Saw the Elephant
They Saw the Elephant

Author: JoAnn Levy

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0806189959

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"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

Klondike Women
Klondike Women

Author: Melanie J. Mayer

Publisher: Swallow Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.

Gold Rush Women
Gold Rush Women

Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy

Publisher: Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780882404844

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Read 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.

They Saw the Elephant
They Saw the Elephant

Author: JoAnn Levy

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2013-07-17

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0806189932

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"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

A Mine of Her Own
A Mine of Her Own

Author: Sally Zanjani

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2000-09-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780803299160

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prospectors 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.

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

Author: Lael Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Morgan offers an authentic and deliciously humorous account of the prostitutes and other "disreputable" women who were the earliest female pioneers of the Far North.

Women's Voices from the Mother Lode
Women's Voices from the Mother Lode

Author: Susan G. Butruille

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781886609143

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Narrates 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.

Gold Rush Girl
Gold Rush Girl

Author: Avi

Publisher: Candlewick

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1536206792

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Newbery Medalist Avi brings us mud-caked, tent-filled San Francisco in 1848 with a willful heroine who goes on an unintended — and perilous — adventure to save her brother. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn’t even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until one day, when Father is in the gold fields, her younger brother, Jacob, is kidnapped. And so Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships. Beloved storyteller Avi is at the top of his form as he ushers us back to an extraordinary time of hope and risk, brought to life by a heroine readers will cheer for. Spot-on details and high suspense make this a vivid, absorbing historical adventure.

A Woman who went to Alaska
A Woman who went to Alaska

Author: May Kellogg Sullivan

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-07-31

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Woman who went to Alaska" by May Kellogg Sullivan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Two Women in the Klondike
Two Women in the Klondike

Author: Mary Evelyn Hitchcock

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1889963682

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This volume is an abridement of the original 1899 edition.