The experience of women living on Prairie farms in the 1930s came alive for undergraduate history student Brandi Adams when she delved into the archives of The Western Producer, a farm weekly that's been an important source of news for farm families for almost 100 years.

Working with digital copies of October issues of the paper published over a 12-year span between the two World Wars, Adams read countless letters and articles written by women of the time and published in the paper's "Mainly for Women" section.