The women who made the journey west with their families were accustomed to making things by hand. They spun threads and made clothes, cooked and cleaned but, above all, they took care of raising children. These women were always busy and sometimes spun yarn until late in the evening. “I remember a lady nearby who took her knitting and did a few rounds at her husband's funeral, she was so used to keeping busy.” (“Yahoo Associated Content”) These women kept their values ​​and duties with them as they journeyed west. Women did most of the things they did at home while traveling. They cooked every meal and harvested the food, cared for the children, and also collected wood and buffalo shavings as fuel for the fire. Women learned to cook things like biscuits and beans over an open fire, to adapt to always traveling. The weather made many things difficult: dust, rain and hail; for this reason the goods often got wet and sometimes they didn't have time to set up a tent to cook under. "In the morning our first domestic nuisance occurred. The cooks adamantly refused to go any further... Here was a dilemma!... Having been raised in a slave state, culinary education had been neglected and I still had to do my first cup of coffee." (“Yahoo Associated Content”) This quote shows that women have had to adapt, but nowhere in the quote was there a complaint. It was sometimes common for women to do some of the men's work. "Albert isn't well today, so I drove. I was very sleepy while driving, I went to sleep a lot of times, only to wake up feeling like we were racing into ravines." ("Yahoo Associated Content") Some women had to endure the journey while pregnant, many women gave birth along the way...... middle of paper ......Dec. 2009. Network. 4 March 2011. .Morre, Denise. "Western women invisible to history". Suite 101. Np, 06 January 2010. Web. 4 March 2011. .Morre, Denise. "The Western Frontier and Its Impact on Women: The Western Frontier and Its Impact on Women: 19th Century Women Go West http://www.suite101.com/content/the-western-frontier-and -its-impact-on-women-a185192#ixzz1FfAZwiav." Suite 101. Np, January 3, 2010. Web. March 4, 2011. “How Women Survived the Frontier.” Yahoo associated content. Np, 13, March 2008. Web. 03/04/2010. .