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Women played a crucial role in holding together Montana farms and ranches during the first half of the 20th century. Through oral interviews many of these women are now providing a clearer picture of farm life, demonstrating that women's economic role in farm life was central, not peripheral. As managers, financiers, and laborers they contributed essential daily support to farm operations.<ref>Laurie K Mercier, "Women's Role in Montana Agriculture: 'You Had to Make Every Minute Count'". ''Montana: the Magazine of Western History'' 1988 38(4): 50-61</ref>
Women played a crucial role in holding together Montana farms and ranches during the first half of the 20th century. Through oral interviews many of these women are now providing a clearer picture of farm life, demonstrating that women's economic role in farm life was central, not peripheral. As managers, financiers, and laborers they contributed essential daily support to farm operations.<ref>Laurie K Mercier, "Women's Role in Montana Agriculture: 'You Had to Make Every Minute Count'". ''Montana: the Magazine of Western History'' 1988 38(4): 50-61</ref>
The status of women in the 19th-century trans-Mississippi West has drawn the attention of numerous interpreters, whose analyses fall into three types:
The status of women in the 19th century trans-Mississippi West has drawn the attention of numerous interpreters, whose analyses fall into three types:
#the [[Frontier Thesis]] inspired by [[Frederick Jackson Turner]], which argues that the West was, among other things, a liberating experience for women and men;
#the [[Frontier Thesis]] inspired by [[Frederick Jackson Turner]], which argues that the West was, among other things, a liberating experience for women and men;
#the reactionists, who view the West as a place of drudgery for women, who reacted unfavorably to the isolation and the work in the West; and
#the reactionists, who view the West as a place of drudgery for women, who reacted unfavorably to the isolation and the work in the West; and