In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being settled by white men, Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley has very few women working there. So he goes back east to Chicago to find 150 women willing to marry his employees. From the candidates, he chooses 138 who seem to be able to make it through a month-long trip across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being settled by white men, Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley has very few women working there. So he goes back east to Chicago to find 150 women willing to marry his employees. From the candidates, he chooses 138 who seem to be able to make it through a month-long trip across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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