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There's another story to tell about low-income rural students and their potential for achievement at top universities. Nobody tells it better than the graduates themselves.

Trained for the Frontier Nursing Service, pioneering women combined their skills with longstanding home health practices in the mountains, birthing and healing.

Traditional salaried work is less and less reliable. In rural Colorado, young adults are experimenting with another economy, based on barter, collaboration, and mutual help.