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Levi Strauss gets a bright idea

by Tony Johnston

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Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.

Clothing and dressTall talesJuvenile fictionHistoryJeans (Clothing)Gold mines and miningFictionChildren's fictionClothing and dress, fictionGold mines and mining, fictionCalifornia, fiction