Title The divorce colony : how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier / April White.

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New York : Hachette Books, 2022.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Divorce -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls -- History -- 19th century.
	Divorce -- Law and legislation -- South Dakota -- Sioux Falls.
	Divorced women -- United States -- Biography.
	Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
	Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Sioux Falls (S.D.) -- History.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
	Divorce. (OCoLC)fst00895809
	Divorce -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00895818
	Divorced women. (OCoLC)fst00895945
	Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (OCoLC)fst01010718
	Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
	Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
	South Dakota -- Sioux Falls. (OCoLC)fst01211505
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1800-1918
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780306827662 (hardcover)
	0306827662 (hardcover)
	9780306827686 (ebook)

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