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

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

April White

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender historical emotional informative medium-paced
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From a historian and senior 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 termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in t...

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