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Gold Rush Women
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Categories: Alaska
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Turtleback Books

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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
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: JoAnn Levy
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-10 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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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
Klondike Women
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Melanie J. Mayer
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Swallow Press

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Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
California Women and Politics
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: Robert W. Cherny
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A Mine of Her Own
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Sally Zanjani
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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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 eff