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Wild Women Of The West: Mail Order Brides
“Middle-aged bachelor sought. Prosperous 130-pound rancher with full head of hair, keen eyes…
Wild Women Of The West: The Shifty Matrimonial Agent
At twenty-one years of age Gladys Knowles feared she would die an old maid.
Wild Women Of The West: An Unlikely Match
From 1875 to 1895, hopeful men and women from Connecticut to California daily perused the pages of the Matrimonial News in search of someone who would commit to them for the rest of their lives.
Wild Women Of The West: Destined to Divorce
Nellie and Joe Sleet’s mail-order marriage wasn’t the only correspondence romance that ended in bitter divorce…
Wild Women of the West: Belle Gunness
The impact of women on the American frontier in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should …