When I read A Woman’s View of the Gold Rush by Mary Ballou, I almost feel bad for her and her situation.  She takes it in stride though and while looking for gold she also is running a boarding house.  She misses her children terribly and she was not the only one who was feeling this way.  She spoke to a couple of different women who were also “homesick” and did not think that the gold rush was what everyone made it out to be.  I would assume the reason why they cannot go back to where they came from is because they sold everything to go look for gold?  Did her husband feel the same way? – Pam P.

When I read A Woman’s View of the Gold Rush by Mary Ballou, I almost feel bad for her and her situation.  She takes it in stride though and while looking for gold she also is running a boarding house.  She misses her children terribly and she was not the only one who was feeling this way.  She spoke to a couple of different women who were also “homesick” and did not think that the gold rush was what everyone made it out to be.  I would assume the reason why they cannot go back to where they came from is because they sold everything to go look for gold?  Did her husband feel the same way? – Pam P.