The Fight for Survival in the Trans-Mississippi West Made Men

The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women

A) more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts, as farming required a lot of help.
B) enjoy all the same legal protections, such as the ability to buy and sell property.
C) come to an understanding that women would play solely a subservient role on the frontier.
D) follow a very nomadic lifestyle, as farming and mining communities were so rare.
E) face the reality that there would be far more women than men due to dangerous men's work.