Biographer alida george. My heart in sync to shout the same loud bird in the trees and in the sky and the honey bees black in the clover beds there is none of you as glad as i. The first laureate crowned during the pana mocked pacific exposition panama opposite effect expedition. She was californias most beloved poet for at least its fifth year. Her father was Don Carlos Smith and the youngest brother of joseph smith the founder of the Mormon Church and so she was raised in the mormon community. Her father died when she was only four months old and six months later, her mother became Joseph Smiths sixth plural wife. When joseph smith was murdered at the jail, she then became a plural wife of george smith, a cousin to the father. When the mormons were forced out in illinois, the mother chose not to follow at Brigham Young or from salt lake to utah. She came to california during a few years after the gold rush started. Theres one story she told years later where she just started school i
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