Tree stumps, mine pits, and tarpaper shacks.
That's the sight that greeted women upon their arrival to northern Minnesota's Iron Range.
Then they rolled up their sleeves and got down to the business of day-to-day lives: raising children and communities at the same time.
Women built and organized schools, churches, cooperatives - even mutual benefit societies, and as historian Pam Brunfelt began to see their stories developing - tangentially, at the time, to other research - she became more and more fascinated with this missing history.
