| This website is dedicated to the
history, genealogy and research of the strong, yet feminine, women who
settled the West.
This website grows from a central root and works
back in time to trace the lives of their ancestors.
The goal is to completely research and define the lives
of the core women. In addition, the goal is to branch out from these
women to fully understand their siblings, friends and environment.
Although genealogy research is part of it, the overall focus is much more
on their history. First Visit? Click on Site
Map above for a quick view of web contents. Click
on Search above to find names and places.
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Visit the Photo Album for more.
Mandan, ND, 1906: Four daughters of
James A. Jarboe and Gertrude Lee Bell. The Jarboe family homesteaded
in Morton County. Visit the North Dakota
page for more.
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You, or your female ancestor, might be
a Prairie Queen if:
 | You had any of your children at home, alone, with no
doctor or midwife, no medicine and no family member present. |
| You learned how to knit, sew, crochet, embroider,
quilt, tat AND needlepoint all before the age of 12. |
| You make salad by taking a bowl and a knife to the
pasture, selecting only the best dandelion greens and other edible
weeds. |
| You make mincemeat for pie by starting with a whole
hogs head. |
| You have cooked beaver, raccoon, possum, ground hog,
squirrels or whatever else was brought home. |
| You have recipes for souse, hogshead cheese, egg
butter and green tomato pie. |
| You make your own sauerkraut from scratch. |
| You make a poultice to put on your child's snakebite. |
| You have six or more children. |
| Your cellar is filled with canned vegetables from
your garden. |
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