MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH
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This women wrote letters about what California was like. She is also known as Louisa Clapp.
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Luzena Wilson
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Dame Shirley
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Molly Shannon
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The author of this letter, who used the pseudonym “Dame Shirley, ” was Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp (1819–1906). The letter was written to Clapp’s sister, Molly, in Massachusetts, but was subsequently published as one of a series of twenty-three in the Pioneer, a California literary magazine.
Detailed explanation-2: -Louise Amelia Knapp Clappe (July 28, 1819 – 1906) was an American writer, best known for her “Shirley Letters.” Clappe was born in New Jersey, spent most of her youth and young adult life in Massachusetts, and later moved out West to Quincy, CA in Plumas County with her husband Fayette Clapp.
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