Anglo/European Women moved into the American West from the wastern states or after emigrating from Canada or various European countries. Those who moved into rural western land and took up homesteading or farming usually did so within the framework of traditional family life. Farm work depended in the collective energy of men, women, and children – the labor each being an important part of the family economy. When these families came from eastern Europe, Scandibavia, Italy, or Russia, the wives and the mothers oftern remained isolated on remote farm in Russia.