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Mary Kidder Rak
Mary Kidder Rak (August 4, 1879 - January 25, 1958) was an Arizonan ranch woman and acclaimed author.
She was born in Boone County, Iowa in 1879. After graduating from Stanford Un...view moreMary Kidder Rak (August 4, 1879 - January 25, 1958) was an Arizonan ranch woman and acclaimed author.
She was born in Boone County, Iowa in 1879. After graduating from Stanford University, she married a cowboy named Charlie Rak in 1917. Two years later, Mary began her career as a ranch woman when she and her husband bought a 22,000 acre ranch at Camp Rucker, a former military post in Cochise County’s Chiricahua Mountains.
During the 1930s, Mary authored several books chronicling her life as a ranch woman, including her struggle to learn the cattle business, to cope with isolation, dealing with the devastating effects of drought, and the difficulty of finding good hired hands.
When she passed away in Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona in 1958 at the age of 78, Charlie followed only a few weeks later, and both Mary and Charlie’s ashes were scattered over the ranch land they loved in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona.view less