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Author:

White, April, author.

Title:

The divorce colony : how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier / April White.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Hachette Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Divorce--Sioux Falls--Sioux Falls--History--19th century.
Divorce--Law and legislation--Sioux Falls.--Sioux Falls.
Divorced women--United States--Biography.
Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
Women--United States--Social conditions.
Sioux Falls (S.D.)--History.
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0306827662
9780306827662

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1275358782

LCCN:

2021049519

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