The divorce colony : how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier /
In the late nineteenth century, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere, divorce. With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, the small city became The Divorce Colony, the unexpected he...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hachette Books,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "Is marriage a failure?"
- Maggie. A thriving and interesting place ; In good faith ; Just another ; Budding hope and dead passions ; A savage American
- Mary. Ardor and inexperience ; The campaigns ; Undesirable cattle ; A personal statement ; Let not man put asunder
- Blanche. A moral superstition ; Free as air ; The sentence ; To be left alone
- Flora. Happiness will follow thee ; A tramp and an exile ; Stupid, unjust, monstrous and foolish ; Light in the sky ; Heart
- Epilogue: A rising of ideals.