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A German Jewish Woman Settles in North Dakota

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Subject:
Humanities
Institution Name:
American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
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Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
Grade Level:
Secondary, Post-secondary
Abstract:

Women who settled the West in the years after the Civil War often faced harsh and unremitting toil. Laboring from well before dawn until well after the sun had set, women helped plant and harvest crops, raised large families, and kept house with the most rudimentary of equipment. Long periods of isolation from neighbors and kin were common; social occasions or visits by travelers and kin were rare and cherished events. Sarah Thal, a German Jew who immigrated to North Dakota in 1882, recalled that "getting mail was a big event" on their North Dakota farm and that when she looked out the window onto the flat prairie she was "still unable to realize the completeness of our isolation."

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English
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Fair Use for educational purposes
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Copyright 1998-2005 American Social History Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.

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