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Podcast: Queens of the Mines
Episode: Luzena Wilson- Part 2 of 2 FROM THE VAULT
Description: Last Time in Luzena Wilson’s Story it was late December 1849.
Luzena was serving up to 200 boarders a week in Sacramento and charging each twenty five dollars. Customers were happy to pay the high price tag for a meal prepared by Luzena Wilson, for the white woman, was a rarity. In 1850 women made up just three percent of the non-Native American population in California‘s mining region, numbering about 800 in a sea of 30,000 men. As a married American woman, Luzena Wilson reminded many of the American men of home, of their wives, mothers or sisters. They treated Luzena, as she put...