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'''Edith Eudora Ammons''' – A Woman Homesteader | '''Edith Eudora Ammons''' – A Woman Homesteader | ||
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| + | When I have pictured manifest destiny, I have hardly pictured Edith Ammons and her sister, two women, moving in to the West alone to build up new lives together. Of course, I would never think of the West in the 19th century as a place of freedom and new beginnings because I know how rough it was from studying history. Ammons herself admits, "This was not the West as I had dreamed it... It was a desolate, forgotten land, without vegetation save for the dry, crackling grass, without visible tokens of fertility" (p. 26). Yet, the sisters toughed it out, taking on hardship after hardship in exchange for their freedom to live where they wanted and do what they wanted. I think that with our comforts of today, it is often hard to imagine women putting themselves through such trials to achieve the freedom they desired. -- CBrau | ||
== Chapter 2 – Expanding Horizons for Educated Women == | == Chapter 2 – Expanding Horizons for Educated Women == | ||
