Before and during the Civil War, abolitionist Jessie Benton Frémont, celebrity wife of legendary Pathfinder and almost-President John C. Frémont, successfully mustered literary and clerical forces in San Francisco (including author Bret Harte and Reverend Thomas Starr King
Had absolutely no clue that California was in such a dangerously pivotal spot as secession and civil war loomed in the east.
"That is the power words have have.” <-- another typo?