Mary Kidder Rak

Among the wide gamut of working women in the West were not only schoolteachers, nurses, restaurateurs, seamstresses, good time girls and even outlaws but there were also and ranchers. Among those was a college-educated lady named Mary Kidder Rak. After graduating from Stanford University she married a cowboy named Charlie Rak in 1917. Her career as a ranch woman and later an acclaimed author began in two years later when she and Charlie bought a 22,000 acre ranch at Camp Rucker, a former mili