Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The divorce colony

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1324242305

Responsibility statement

April White

Sub title

how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier

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

Table Of 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

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