8. How did Sam Brannan plan to get rich? Raising cattle
Selling supplies to people who wanted to raise cattle
Selling tools to people who wanted to mine for gold
Mining for gold

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference