T. - reviewed on 12/29/2009 + 117 more book reviews

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This is a great book! The author dug through archival diaries and oral autobiographies and found the stories from women who survived through the hard times of living in the wild, wild west. Most of the stories are from New Mexico, but there is some parts covering Texas and Arizona. Learning about how people coped with the hardships and how they lived opened my eyes to the sacrifices of the homesteaders. I can't imagine living in a 8 x 10 dugout covered with tin for years at a time, with only an oil burning stove and a straw bed!

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