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California Gold Rush | Gold Mountains | 5
American History Tellers
How Did Your Great Grandfather Find America?
Ticy Pruitt's family came west on the Oregon Trail in a covered wagon they homesteaded in Oregon. She was raised by brothers who were reputed to be quite cruel to her When she turned 18 she ran away from home and went everywhere looking for work, but she did end up in Chinatown begging my great grandfather for a job. By the time they meet the Chinese exclusion act has already been passed Things are very difficult for the Chinese Sacramento is the state capital so certainly a center for anti-Chinese sentiment. So after they get married they decide to come south to Los Angeles and they arrived here in 1897. They were still in the underwear business for a while gradually curios and by 1901
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