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Wild Women Of The West: Happy Ever After

April 28, 2021
Business for matrimonial publications increased substantially whenever stories of successful mail-order connections were made.  Editors for periodicals such as Matrimonial News and the New Plan Company shared happy ever after tales with daily newspapers in hopes they would print the romantic adventures of correspondence couples.   Several such stories appeared in newspapers like the Waterloo Daily...
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Wild Women Of The West: Mail Order Articles

By Chris Enss
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April 14, 2021
“I am fat, fair, and 48.  5 feet high.  Am a No. 1 lady, well fixed with no encumbrance:  am in business in city but want a partner who lives in the West.  Want an energetic man that has some means, not under 40 years of age and weight no less than 180.  Of good...
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Wild Women Of The West: Mail Order Brides

By Chris Enss
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April 7, 2021
“Middle-aged bachelor sought.  Prosperous 130-pound rancher with full head of hair, keen eyes, and no false teeth desires life companion.  The lady enjoys indoor and outdoor activities and holds deeds to property valued at $10,000.  Dudes need not apply.” This no-nonsense cowgirl personal ad placed by Miss Ellen Callahan in 1887 edition of Hoof and...
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COWGIRL LIFE

Wild Women Of The West: The Shifty Matrimonial Agent

By Chris Enss
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August 21, 2018
On February 23, 1891, readers of the Daily Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, pored over an article about a desperate, young woman who dreamed of nothing more than being a wife.  At twenty-one years of age Gladys Knowles feared she would die an old maid. Most of her friends had married, but she had...
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Wild Women Of The West: An Unlikely Match

By Chris Enss
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August 14, 2018
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.  Many of the advertisements emphasized a desire to correspond with interested parties for a set time before agreeing to meet...
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Wild Women Of The West: Destined to Divorce

By Chris Enss
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August 7, 2018
Deacon Joe Sleet’s correspondence with widow Nellie Wallace was full of promise for the future.  When they began writing one another in late 1925, Mrs. Wallace had hoped to find a man who would love and care for her as her deceased husband once had.  When she placed an ad in the “Get Acquainted” section...
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Wild Women of the West: Belle Gunness

By Chris Enss
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August 9, 2017
The impact of women on the American frontier in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries should not be underestimated.  To a large degree women were responsible for taming the wilderness.  Under their influence churches were formed, schools, and libraries were established, and the importance of home and hearth was rediscovered.  The result was nothing short...

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