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Women of the Gold Rush

出版	Indian Head Books, 1992
ISBN	15661906499781566190640
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vNR5AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"In the early days of the mining camps of the Forty-Niners there were no women. To relieve the stupifying boredom that resulted from this lack of female companionship, the men threw themselves into the most colorful and violent social life (if it can be called that) ever to flourish in America. There was drinking and gambling of course. But there were also bull and bear fights, duels, a primitive sort of theater, all-male dances (a miner with a patch sewed on the seat of his pants was the 'woman'), and the most popular diversion of all--hanging. Then came the ladies. In the early 1850s 'Sweet Betseys' came to California bringing with them the ice cream saloon, the lending library, and a real and enthusiastically patronized theater. In a remarkably brief space of time, the violent pleasures of the miners were calmed. Based primarily on eyewitness accounts, diaries, and the newspapers of the time, [this book] is the rich and sometimes uproarious history of the women who tamed the Forty-Niners, and left a permanent mark on the history of our country."--