Title: Levi Strauss gets a bright idea
Description: 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.
Subjects: Clothing and dress, Tall tales, Juvenile fiction, History, Jeans (Clothing), Gold mines and mining, Fiction, Children's fiction, Clothing and dress, fiction, Gold mines and mining, fiction, California, fiction
Places: California
People: Levi Strauss (1829-1902)
Time periods: 1850-1950