Kate Bates is another Gene Stratton-porter unsung hero in the tradition of Elnora Comstock, of A Girl of the Limberlost, and Freckles and Laddie, of books of the same name.
After rejecting the easy path to her dream, she suffers through a bad marriage but ultimately acquires her Land and achieves happiness..
Her real ambition, however, is to own and cultivate a large farm.
With the help of a nephew and sister-in-law, she defies her parents, becomes a teacher, leaves home.
Kate finds this unfair since all of the brothers have been given Land and the older sisters sent to teacher training.
As the youngest child, and female, in a large prosperous farm family, she has been designated as her mother\'s helper in old age.
Kate Bates is another Gene Stratton-porter unsung hero in the tradition of Elnora Comstock, of A Girl of the Limberlost, and Freckles and Laddie, of books of the same name
