In a politically-charged place and time, turn of the century 1900, North Dakota, the newspaper publishing business could be quite challenging. Especially for a woman newspaper publisher. After suffering the loss of her newspaper- publishing husband at an early age, Ritchie B. Doherty picked up her husband’s trade, primarly to keep food on the table for her family of five children and took on the challenges and difficulties that followed. Nor Were They All Men tells the true life story of Ritchie B. Doherty, who in the face of physical hardships, professional challenges, and gender biases, rose above all these with grace and determination as told by the actual newspaper articles written about her at the time.
