The divorce colony how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier
"From a historian and senior writer and editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms"--
| Main Author: | White, April (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Hachette Books,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "Is marriage a failure?"
- A thriving and interesting place
- In good faith
- Just another
- BUdding hope and dead passions
- A savage American
- Ardor and inexpereience
- The campaigns
- Undesirable cattle
- A personal statement
- Let not man put asunder
- A moral superstition free as air
- The sentence
- To be left alone
- Happiness will follow thee
- A tramp and an exile
- Stupid, unjust, monstrous and foolish
- Light in the sky
- Heart
- Epilogue: A rising of ideals.