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Has a tendency to become the [[Determined Widow]] if the main character of the story is [[The Drifter]] or [[The Gunslinger]].
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* Ma Ingalls of the ''[[Little House On the Prairie (Literature)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' series.
** Her daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, becomes this in ''The First Four Years'' and the sequel series about her own daughter.
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* Some of the women in [[The Icelandic Sagas (Literature)|The Icelandic Sagas]] seem to have been like this.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]] loved the uber version of this trope for female leads in space frontier settings. The ideal frontier wife, to roughly paraphrase, "should be able to fire a gun, pilot a ship, navigate by stars in space and on planets, skin and gut animals, build cabins and solve quadratic equations in their head while raising children." See, for example, ''[[Time Enough for Love]]''.
* The [[Traveller]] volume ''Sword Worlds'' contains in a sidenote, a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] in which a soldier returns from the Fifth Frontier War to see his [[Downer Ending|home wrecked by the war]]. Then he sees his wife, Ilja, gallantly rebuilding the house and after [["Glad to Be Alive" Sex|a suitable reunion]] joins her in rebuilding their family home to prove that nothing can break the spirit of a true Sword Worlder or a true Sword Worlder's wife.
** At the end of the book his brother comes along asking him to go on an [[The Epic|epic]] [[The Migration|voyage]] [[Space Cossacks|to save the sword worlder people]]. The returned soldier agrees that it is a worthy goal but not for him. He wants to take care of the homestead with his brave wife because [[Theres No Place Like Home]].
* Claire Fraser becomes one of these (while retaining her status of ginormous [[Badass]]) in the later books in the ''Outlander'' series. 18th Century American wilderness? Pssh, it can be beaten. (It helps that she has [[Portal to The Past|all the medical expertise of a 20th century medical doctor]] and a good set of vaccinations.)
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