Did nineteenth century women of the West fail to overcome hardships of living on the Great Plains?

Nineteenth century women in the American west are credited with having been the foundation of the success of this nation. Not only did they demonstrate remarkable adaptivity and resourcefulness while carving out new civilizations in hostile wilderness environments, they taught their own children. Historians and sociologists credit those women and their extraordinarily effective homeschooling for the startling innovativeness and what we call "American Ingenuity" and "American Can Do" that made this nation great. With that ability to teach their own young practical rationality, American women launched a nation based on significantly higher platforms of objective thinking, breaking the stagnation of subjective, religious based educational systems.