Women are scarce among the employees on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley, where "The West" ends in Texas and only California is slowly being colonized by white men. So he returns to Chicago to find 150 women to marry his staff. He chooses 138 applicants who can endure a month-long expedition over "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Tom Zoerner wrote
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Women are scarce among the employees on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley, where "The West" ends in Texas and only California is slowly being colonized by white men. So he returns to Chicago to find 150 women to marry his staff. He chooses 138 applicants who can endure a month-long expedition over "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Tom Zoerner wrote
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