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Book SynopsisExamines women's work and family lives in Sweetwater County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, demonstrating how survival on the ranching and mining frontier heightened the value of group cooperation in ways that bred conservative attitudes toward gender.
Trade Review"An important contribution to the history of women and families in the West and ... to the larger history of women in America and to the history of immigration."-Elliott West, author of Growing Up in America in the Twentieth Century: A History and Reference Guide -- Elliott West "A compelling portrait of the changing informal networks that women of many ethnicities and different class backgrounds used in town and on the range."-Karen R. Merrill, Princeton University -- Karen R. Merrill
