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
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eng
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history
Main title
The divorce colony
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1325613071
Responsibility statement
April White
Sub title
how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier
Summary
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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adult
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- Sioux Falls (S.D.) -- History
- Biographies
- HISTORY + Women
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Divorced women -- United States -- Biography
- Audiobooks
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Sociology + Marriage & Family
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions
- HISTORY + Modern -- 19th century
- HISTORY + Social History
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Women
- Divorce + Law and legislation -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls
- Divorce -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls -- History -- 19th century
- Married women + Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
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- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject15
- Sioux Falls (S.D.) -- History
- Biographies
- HISTORY + Women
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918
- Divorced women -- United States -- Biography
- Audiobooks
- SOCIAL SCIENCE + Sociology + Marriage & Family
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions
- HISTORY + Modern -- 19th century
- HISTORY + Social History
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Women
- Divorce + Law and legislation -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls
- Divorce -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls -- History -- 19th century
- Married women + Legal status, laws, etc -- United States
- Content1
- Author1
- Narrator2
- Mapped to1