What did Levi Strauss and Luzena Stanley Wilson have in common?
A. Both were Methodist missionaries who moved to the Oregon Country to try to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
B. Both were gold miners who became very rich at the height of the California gold rush.
C. Both were entrepreneurs who started a successful business that supplied the needs of California’s gold miners.
D. Together, they invented a type of wagon called the prairie schooner. So many western settlers bought prairie schooners that Strauss and Wilson became very rich.