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Farming families know what it means to have strong women. Families who have lived in rural areas for generations can tell stories of mothers and grandmothers who delivered six babies on the kitchen table, who kept the farm running when husbands were called up for military service, who prepared meals for dozens of workers, who scrubbed and baked and canned and ran a household with very few resources and very little help from faraway neighbors. Men may have driven cattle and plowed fields, but women were the invisible force behind them. Women played as much of a role in the taming of the West as their sunburned, hardworking husbands and sons.
