Title |
They saw the elephant : : women in the California gold rush
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Names |
Levy, JoAnn.
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Book Number |
DBC19509
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
Approximately ten-percent of the Gold Rush forty-niners were female. Overlooked by historians, this volume tells the stories of the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who took the overland trail, mined for gold, and settled in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Nevada City afterwards. Californiana Collection.
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Narrator |
Levy, Joann.
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Local Subject |
History - History of the American West - HUSW
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History - HST
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History, United States - HUS
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Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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Women's Interest - WOM
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General Non-Fiction - GNF
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Californiana Collection - CAC
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California history - CAH
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California Interest - CAI
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Short Book - SH
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Audience Notes |
Female narrator.
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LC Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life - California
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Women pioneers - California - History - 19th century
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Women - California - History - 19th century
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California - Gold discoveries
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Downloadable books
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Nonfiction
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Talking books
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Call Number |
979.404082
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Language |
English
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Released |
1992
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Publication Info |
Sacramento : Braille and Talking Book Library, California State Library, 1992
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. 0806124733 (pbk)
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