Creative Women Searching for Gold in California, 1848-1867
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The immigrant woman is a creative and patient. That is how American history has documented her since the first migrations to the new world. Those who preferred a spirit of adventure to change their condition for the better, so they traveled to the western United States of America through the deserts and some rode the sea.
While it was believed that women should not participate in these trips, as they were not able to bear the difficulties of the road and lifestyle in the gold mines, but the matter led to something else. Women in unconventional roles entered men's field to survive on the journeys to California, and when they arrived at the tent gatherings in the gold mines, they found primitive conditions to live, and even living in those places were outside the vocabulary of the natural life they had assaulted. However, the new frontier society that faced women in California also liberated them from traditional roles, as the absolute isolation of the mining and drilling camps forced men and women to invent their own culture: a culture quite different from what was known on the east coast of the United States of America. California was different from that, miners are aggressive and not bound by law, tradition or family, but the law that prevailed in it applies to the law of the struggle for survival.
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