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Author White, April, author narrator.

Title The divorce colony [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier / April White.

Publication Info. New York : Hachette Books, 2022.
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Description 1 sound file : digital
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Note Electronic audio file.
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.
Performer Read by April White.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York Hachette Audio 2022 Available via World Wide Web.
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.
Genre Electronic audio books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
ISBN 9781668614525 (electronic audio bk.)
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