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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A Determined Homesteader can't Settle the Frontier alone, no matter how stubborn he may be. He needs an equally determined wife. At least in fiction, the Determined Homesteader's Wife is usually a strong-willed woman who's handy around the cabin and fields and probably knows how to load and shoot a gun. And if she doesn't have those capabilities at the beginning of the story, she soon will have. Especially when those skills are required to protect the Determined Homesteader's Children. The "prairie romance" subgenre of Romance Novel will often have the protagonist becoming one of these, either from the beginning of the homestead or as a mail-order bride. Has a tendency to become the Determined Widow if the main character of the story is The Drifter or The Gunslinger. |
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Mrs. Dance in Canyon Passage. She refuses to give up and move to town even after her husband and eldest son are killed in an Indian raid. | |
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Destry Rides Again: Mrs. Claggett, who reacts to Kent trying to take her farm by taking a shot at him with her rifle—just barely missing—and yelling "Come and get it!" | |
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Mrs Onedin is the last variation of the "determined captain's wife" (see real-life section) in the old British series The Onedin Line about a Family Business of nineteenth-century English Intrepid Merchant. Like her husband, she seems a grim old sourpuss, until you know her better. But she is also a tough Apron Matron, and Good with Numbers and knows well how to berate rebellious underlings. She is tough and stoical and remarkably brave. She is almost the Onedin Line's Woman Behind the Man. And in general, she is pretty awesome. | |
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Marianne in Cloud of Sparrows was one of these before dying. | |
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Women of Lancre in the Discworld are modelled off the British version of this, the Determined Hillfarmer's Wife. Thinly fictionalised versions of the real thing turn up in James Herriot's All Creatures Great And Small series. | |
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First Winter: The mother of the frontier family newly arrived in the Canadian wilderness, hacking firewood and feeding the children while their father spends the winter at a remote logging camp earning money. The mother's teenaged daughter Moira becomes the Determined Homesteader's Daughter after her mother dies. | |
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Alma Garrett of Deadwood was one of these — for a very short time. When her husband died, however, she used her newfound freedom to pursue the life she'd always wanted for herself but that staid Eastern civilization wouldn't have allowed. | |
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Kristina in The Emigrants downplays and deconstructs this trope. She has trouble rooting in America, gets medical troubles from repeated childbirths and miscarriages, but is determined to create a good home for her family. | |
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Patience and Sarah has Patience in the role, with her tomboyish unofficial wife Sarah as the Determined Homesteader. The two move to New York and start a farm together. | |
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Some of the women in The Icelandic Sagas seem to have been like this. | |
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The Traveller volume Sword Worlds contains in a sidenote in which a soldier returns from the Fifth Frontier War to see his home wrecked by the war. Then he sees his wife, Ilja, gallantly rebuilding the house and after a suitable reunion joins her in rebuilding their family home to prove that nothing can break the spirit of a true Sword Worlder or a true Sword Worlder's wife. At the end of the book his brother comes along asking him to go on an epic voyage to save the sword worlder people. The returned soldier agrees that it is a worthy goal but not for him. He wants to take care of the homestead with his brave wife because There's No Place Like Home. |
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RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant: In The Man Who Stared at the Sun, the farmer's wife only finds out about the contest when the farmer doesn't come home for dinner and the sun doesn't set. After failing to convince him to come home, she leaves and the sun tries to get the farmer to look away by observing how upset she is. However, the wife takes that as a challenge, brings food to the farmer, and then takes over running the farm. Thanks to her work and the help of the Determined Homesteader's Children, the farm thrives, which allows the farmer to concentrate solely on the sun. | |
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Emily "Auntie Em" Gale of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book. | |
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There's Nell McLaughlin of Flicka who talks some sense into her stubborn, horse rancher husband. | |
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British Sea Captains in the Napoleonic Wars would have their wives with them, as the Admiral and Mrs Croft show in Persuasion. | |
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Plague and Treachery on the Oregon Trail has Susan Neckebard, who was not that determined to follow manifest destiny as her husband at first, but his incompetence forced her to show off her phenomenal survival skills. | |
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Zig-zagged in 3:10 to Yuma (1957) in the case of Dan's wife Alice. In the beginning, she isn't determined at all, and this trope is clearly averted. Alice complains about how hard life has been and how much they've had to struggle and pesters Dan to get a loan which might help save their foundering cattle ranch. Later, when Dan is about to go out on what seems likely to be a fatal march with Ben Wade, this trope is played more straight. Alice intercepts Dan, begging him to stop, telling him not to risk his life over anything she said the day before. She insists that she's loved their life, even with the hardships and struggles. | |
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Mrs. Jorgensen in The Searchers. Her husband is not only not the Determined Homesteader, but he's given way to despair, blaming the country for the death of his son. His wife responds with a rousing speech of how this country will become a good place to live, even if it may take their bones in the ground to achieve it. | |
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The Purchase Price has Joan go to rugged North Dakota. She manages to keep her head up by being fiercely determined to win Jim's affection and be a good farmer. | |
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Claire Fraser becomes one of these (while retaining her status of ginormous badass) in the later books in the Outlander series. 18th Century American wilderness? Pssh, it can be beaten. (It helps that she has all the medical expertise of a 20th-century medical doctor and a good set of vaccinations.) | |
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Ma Ingalls of the Little House on the Prairie series. Her daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, becomes this in The First Four Years and the sequel series about her own daughter. Ma Ingall's mother took it a step further and was a Determined Widow alone, with a mass of children, on the western frontier. |
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Angle of Repose: Susan Ward is an Eastern girl who's used to the finer things; she's even received post-secondary education. But after she marries Oliver, an engineer who works in mining out West, she finds herself with little money in a hostile environment. She makes the best of it, writes of her adventures for magazines back at home and keeps up with her art. | |
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Lisa Douglas of Green Acres is a subversion of the type, being not at all interested in helping her husband make a success of the farm. Then again, he's something of a parody of the Determined Homesteader type himself. | |
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The Trail to Oregon!: In an otherwise parody of The Oregon Trail, Mother is perhaps the only one who plays their role mostly straight, epitomized by her solo song "When The World's At Stake". However, she is stuck in a Foolish Husband, Responsible Wife dynamic, making her more of a Deadpan Snarker than the trope usually calls for. In "Speendrun" she goes full-on Mama Bear to catch up to the bandits who kidnapped her daughter. note Due to the Audience Participation element of the show, she gets renamed in each performance. The version on Youtube named her "Slippery When Wet". | |
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Sabra Cravat of the Edna Ferber novel Cimarron and its 2 subsequent film adaptations. She settles in Oklahoma with her husband during the land rush and toughs out many years on the frontier, then takes over the family newspaper business when her husband leaves her due to wanderlust. She ends up becoming an important frontier figure in her own right. | |
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