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Westward the Women

There is a serious lack of women among the laborers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley at a period when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being colonized by white men. As a result, he returns to Chicago to find 150 ladies willing to marry his staff. He chooses 138 applicants from the pool who appear capable of surviving a month-long expedition through "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Tom Zoerner wrote this.

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