With Great Hope: Women Of The California Gold Rush

by JoAnn Chartier, Chris Enss

Luzena Stanley Wilson became a gold rush banker, storing gold dust in bread pans in her camp oven. Mary Graves survived cannibalism in the Sierras. Madame Moustache lost the love of her life, and her fortune, in a silver camp in Nevada. A storyteller wrote about the West to feed her children. With Great Hope tells the fascinating stories of twelve uncommon women, the significant events of the times, and the everyday occurrences of life in the gold camps.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2000

Reviews

[Marilyn Zanetti · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recommend this book because it explains what life was like for the women that lived through the California Gold Rush. You'll read about 12 womens' lives during an exciting time in hi'story.

[Lillian VanBennekom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good read, some stories seem incomplete or glossed over but definitely worth reading

[Jodi Pruett · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was interesting stories of different ladies that came across the US to the California Gold Rush. Why they came, what they had hoped to accomplish, and all they went thru to get here. Stay here and start a life. I found it interesting, and I enjoyed it.