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Bridget Miranda Evoy, an Irish immigrant, defied expectations in 1849 by leading her family on a perilous 1800-mile journey from St. Louis to California. Despite facing brutal terrain and hardships, she successfully established a trading post, toll bridge, farm, boarding house, lumber mill, store, and blacksmith, transforming her familys fortune and social status in the American West. Her story is now told in a new book by her great-great-grandson.

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