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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Josefa Segovia - Part 2 of 2
Description: Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. These are true stories, with some of my own fabrication of descriptive details.Â
Thank you to Columbia Mercantile 1855 and The Chop Shop of Jamestown.
Work Cited
PBS The Land of Gold and Hope
Fascinating Women in California History By Alton Pryor
La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman By Alfredo Mirandé, Evangelina EnrÃquez
Ghost Towns of the West By Philip Varney, Jim Hinckley
Hunting for Gold by Major William Downie
Life in the California Gold Fields by William Swain 1850
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