Gold Rush Women

Author : Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962753053
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Women written by Claire Rudolf Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the riveting stories of adventurous women -- miners, madams, merchants, and mothers -- who went North during the gold rush era.

Author : JoAnn Levy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189959
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Saw the Elephant written by JoAnn Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Robert W. Cherny
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803236085
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Women and Politics written by Robert W. Cherny and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edited volume exploring the role women played in California politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Rich Mole
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894974769
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Women of the Gold Rush written by Rich Mole and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lael Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush written by Lael Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sally Zanjani
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803299160
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mine of Her Own written by Sally Zanjani and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Frances Backhouse
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of the Klondike written by Frances Backhouse and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here 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 : Avi
Publisher : Candlewick
ISBN 13 : 1536206792
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Girl written by Avi and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher : Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780882404844
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush Women written by Claire Rudolf Murphy and published by Anchorage : Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461746817
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Mine written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true stories of ladies who labored as hard as men out in the mines. A wonderful collection of true Americana, this book includes archival photographs of lady miners as well as the mines and boomtowns.