Taming the elephant

The outer archives are busy

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The phrase "seeing the elephant" was frequently used during the California Gold Rush by western sojourners to describe their encounters with strange and alien situations or exotic and enlivening experiences-something as unique as actually seeing an elephant was at that time.

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