Word: kanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loss of Dujarier and Bavaria. But at 35, after severe bouts of sickness and marriage, she rallied enough to join the California gold rush. She opened a frontier salon in a mining camp called Grass Valley and stocked it with Ludwig's jewels, Louis Seize cabinets, ormolu mirrors, Kanaka houseboys, a swan bed, a pet bear and every Senator, Governor or millionaire she could find. In the back of her mind, as letters discovered after her death made clear, was a plot to capture California from the U.S. and set herself up as Queen of Lolaland...