women farmers

Mae Lee Barnes saves her money earned while working in a munitions factory, buys farmland, and waits for her husband to return from WWII.

Introduces the varied aspects of a career in dairy farming through a description of the daily lives of two sisters who run a dairy farm in Maine.

Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.

Gabriel Oak, in love with the beautiful heiress Bathsheba Everdene, waits patiently while she works her way through the hearts of local men.