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The women who opened Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's restaurants in Pittsburg, Kansas, did so because their husbands suffered injuries that kept them from going back to the mines.
"The women did what they knew best to provide income for the family and that was cook," said the website of the nonprofit Kansas Sampler Foundation. "They both started serving customers in their homes and the Crawford County fried chicken legacy was born."