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Sarah S. Nisonger of Santaquin, Utah, ca. 1894, at a typical woman's task. Photograph by George Edward Anderson, courtesy of Rell G. Francis, Heritage
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Women's Work on the Mormon Frontier BY MAUREEN URSENBACH BEECHER
3, 1875, MARTHA JANE CORAY, middle-aged mother and ranch wife of Mona, Utah, recorded in her diary that she had "washed
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Dr. Beecher is associate professor, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History.
