Historian April White tells the story of daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms. With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines, and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, Sioux Falls, South Dakota became the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses.
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