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Immigrant women's domestic labor, religious
practices, and community service forged a new cultural mosaic
in the North American West... Women's daily work transplanted
cultures, built the West's farms and businesses, founded synagogues
and churches, schools, and libraries.
Elizabeth
Jameson,
University
of Calgary
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"To protect his wife, Levi's three brothers slept in an
adjoining room with loaded guns to ward off any attempt to kidnap
her. My brother-in-law forbade his wife even to look out of
her bedroom window."
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