A Mormon Woman's Life in Southern Utah
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Author: Center for History and New Media/American Social History Project
Subject: Humanities
Institution Name:
American Social History Project/Center for History and New Media
Collection Name: Many Pasts (CHNM/ASHP)
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 rudimentary equipment. Long periods of isolation from neighbors and kin were common; social occasions or visits by travelers and kin were rare and cherished events. Mary Ann Hafen immigrated from Switzerland to Utah with her Mormon family in 1860 at age six and her first husband died when she was barely twenty. In this account, she described her move from Utah to Nevada in 1891 with her second husband and their polygamous family, as well as their subsequent life there.
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Types of Materials: Teaching and Learning Strategies
Language: English
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