In May 1886, Margaret Danley Stetter gave birth to a child in a shelter dug into a hill in Western Nebraska. She came from a long line of homesteaders, who tried to tame the prairie into farmland, some with more success than others. Her husband, John, was away earning his living as a cowboy and it took several telegrams to finally persuade him to come home to meet his first-born daughter, Leta.
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