Frontier women feared losing husbands to mountain journeys with household ruin following.

Evidence

Mrs. Chalmers repents of having consented, and conjures up doleful visions of what the family will come to when left headless, and of disasters among the cows and hens. I could tell her that the eldest son and the “hired man” have plotted to close the saw-mill and go on a hunting and fishing expedition, that the cows will stray, and that the individual spoken respectfully of as “Mr. Skunk” will make havoc in the hen-house. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 74

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Frontier women with absent husbands lived alone in danger without fear — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 189

Broader Connections

• Frontier women with absent husbands lived alone in danger without fear #contradicts (0.88) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 189