How were women treated in the California Gold Rush?
In mining country, women were deemed to be “good” or “bad.” The “good” women provided domestic services to the miners, such as cooking, laundry, and boarding houses. The “bad” women were prostitutes, which were present wherever the men went. Were there women in the California Gold Rush? Eureka! Of the 40,000 people who arrived by…
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