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    Yes, Women Participated in the Gold Rush

    “Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.
    by Erin Blakemore, Glenda Riley via JSTOR Daily on December 19, 2019

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