CIBOLA COUNTY, N.M. America is a country of railroad towns, mining camps, borrowed library rooms and kitchens where coffee stayed hot for travelers arriving after dark. In Grants, the name Mother Whiteside came to stand for a kind of public service that was never elected, rarely paid well and was often carried out by women whose work became the foundation beneath formal institutions.
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