One Woman's Gold Rush
Author | : Cynthia Brackett Driscoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 9780881960075 |
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Author | : Cynthia Brackett Driscoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 9780881960075 |
Author | : JoAnn Levy |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0806189959 |
"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 | : Claire Rudolf Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780962753053 |
This book gathers the riveting stories of adventurous women -- miners, madams, merchants, and mothers -- who went North during the gold rush era.
Author | : Melanie J. Mayer |
Publisher | : Swallow Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Author | : Dorothy M. Frost |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781495180026 |
Author | : Rich Mole |
Publisher | : Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2010-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781894974769 |
During the frenzied Klondike Gold Rush, many daring women ventured north to seek riches and adventure or to escape a troubled past. These unforgettable, strong-willed women defied the social conventions of the time and endured heartbreak and horrific conditions to build a life in the wild North. At the height of the gold rush, Martha Purdy, Nellie Cashman, Ethel Berry and a few hundred other women were conquering what came to be called the Trail of '98--a route that proved to be an impossible ordeal for many men. From renowned reporter Faith Fenton and successful entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney to Mae Field, "The Doll of Dawson," and other "citizens of the demimonde," the Klondike's rebel women bring an intriguing new perspective to gold-rush history.
Author | : Avi |
Publisher | : Candlewick |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1536206792 |
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.
Author | : Robert W. Cherny |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0803236085 |
An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Sylvia Alden Roberts |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0595524923 |
Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
Author | : Claire Rudolf Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780962753046 |
In yet another previously untold chapter of the gold rush era, Murphy and Haigh have gathered individual stories, vintage photographs, and historic memorabilia to tell what life was like for children in the harsh and sparse gold-mining camps a century ago. Illustrations.