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The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

by April White

For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, one sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the American frontier, the new state offered a tempting freedom often difficult to obtain elsewhere: divorce.

Publisher

Hachette Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780306827662