Taming the Forty-Niner
by Elisabeth Margo
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/near fine
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1955. First Edition, First Printing. 1/4 cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Near fine, first edition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Marbled vellum-style paper cover with red quarter cloth covering spine. Near fine dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 244 pp. Small octavo, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 in tall. An examination of that "vast natural experiment in social psychology which historians call the gold rush" sights along a new line -- the lack of women. Their absence was the cause of the "spree of the century" which was strictly stag, for the gold- seekers were conditioned to keep the female adventurers and glamour girls in a separate compartment from the sweethearts and wives for whom they had a worshipful homesickness. Here are the two years, 1849-1851, in which the men gambled, drank, horsed around, fought, made money, went broke, got sick and generally kicked over the traces, in contrast to the eventual infiltration of "civilization's fifth column" -- the respectable woman -- when sunbonnets and hearthsides vitally changed the moral climate -- and in turn were somewhat altered by customs that would not be abandoned. An entertaining backward look that catalogs the before and after sharply." --Kirkus
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Details
- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1046
- Title
- Taming the Forty-Niner
- Author
- Elisabeth Margo
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- gold rush, forty-niners, gold, california, brothel, women, pioneers, west, prostitute, madam west
- Bookseller catalogs
- California & the West;
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