4 Kids to Raise and a Ranch to Run, Alone

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In the 1870s, as Gen. William Palmer and his wealthy friends were creating "Little London" on the plains, Adeline Hornbek was carving out a small but successful ranch on the other side of Pikes Peak -- by herself and with four kids to feed.

Hornbek is one of dozens of women -- no one knows for sure how many -- who broke gender barriers and stereotypes to establish homesteads throughout Colorado. On Saturday, historians and rangers at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument will explore in a public seminar how Hornbek and other pioneering women used the Homestead Act of 1862 to create a future -- and a place in Colorado history.

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4 Kids to Raise and a Ranch to Run, Alone

Hornbek, a tall woman with flaming red hair, had quite a history in the West before she arrived in the Fl...

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