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Because Lou Henry Hoover was awesome- 
Before she became First Lady, Lou Henry Hoover was a tomboy, outdoors woman,  bareback horse rider, Girl Scout leader, world traveler, and one of the first women geologists at Stanford.  Have we mentioned she spoke Latin and Chinese?
Here’s Lou on a camping trip to California’s Mount Gleason in 1891.  She is seated on a burro outside the Acton store-post office-photographers studio.
-More amazing Lou
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Because Lou Henry Hoover was awesome-

Before she became First Lady, Lou Henry Hoover was a tomboy, outdoors woman,  bareback horse rider, Girl Scout leader, world traveler, and one of the first women geologists at Stanford.  Have we mentioned she spoke Latin and Chinese?

Here’s Lou on a camping trip to California’s Mount Gleason in 1891.  She is seated on a burro outside the Acton store-post office-photographers studio.

-More amazing Lou

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