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Harriet Russell Strong: horticulturalist, conservationist, and feminist.

THE PINK AND WHITE, HELPLESS prettiness; the delicate, fainting, clinging doll is fast becoming a thing of the past," (1) Harriet Williams Russell Strong advised fellow members of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles in 1895. Although she herself was described as dainty and fragile, Harriet was by no means helpless. Widowed at the age of thirty-nine, with four daughters to support and no experience in business and agriculture, she took over the management of the 220-acre Rancho del Fuerte ("Strong Ranch") and built a reputation as the most successful woman rancher in California. At the time of her death, the land produced some $25,000 a year. (2)

During her remarkable career, ...

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