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Country Today in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

28 Dec 1983

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Country Today

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Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America

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Dec 28, 1983

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Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier opens hidden chapter of pioneer life

A new sourcebook by Carol Fairbanks and Sara Brooks Sundberg highlights Canadian and American prairie women as resilient partners in settlement. It covers daily life, farming control, community bonds, religion, schooling, and hardships like grasshopper plagues, with examples from Gro Svendsen and others.

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Carol Fairbanks Sara Brooks Sundberg Prairie Frontier Canada United States Ms. Fairbanks Uweau Claire Sundberg Ms. Fairbank Ted Myers Tolstoi Manitoba

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Prairie women in early settler accounts and fiction

Researchers critique Laura Ingalls Wilder and other authors for portraying prairie women as primarily domestic or fragile while examining real diaries and medical records. They contrast benevolent Indigenous relations with chronicling a woman's hard labor, illness, and family decisions in pioneer life.

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Eau Claire The Prairies Gro Svendsen Norway Wisconsin Dakotas Great Plains Alberta Saskatchewan Kansas Minnesota New Ulm Hasave Prairie du Chien Roberta Hill Whiteman Uw-Eau Claire North Dakota Fairbanks Ole Rolvaag Mrs. Sundberg Dennis McDonough Nelson Rice Lake Farmers Union Co-Op Rice Lake Progressive Radio P.O Holcombe Custom Farm Ampi Office Associated Milk Producers, Inc Turtle Lake Sears London Square Roebuck and CO Olet Center Hay St'Chippens Nolte Sam Heights

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