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The divorce colony : how women revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier / April White.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780306827662
- ISBN: 0306827662
- Physical Description: xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albright Memorial Library | 306.89 WHITE (Text) | 50686016197274 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library | 306.893 WHI (Text) | 33249025373287 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
| Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults 306.8 WHI Nonfiction (Text) | 34001001419397 | Adult Area | Available | - |
| Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library | Adults 306.89 WHI Nonfiction (Text)
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Plated 2022: In Memory and Honor of David Humbert
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34007002467400 | Adult Area | Available | - |
| Martin Library | Adults 306.89 WHI Life Times (Text) | 33454005878749 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
| RACC | HQ836.S5 W45 2022 (Text) | 33624024965822 | Books | Available | - |
| Allentown Public Library | 306.89 WHIT (Text) | 34455006921718 | Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL | Available | - |
| Bethlehem Main Library | 306.89 (Text) | 33062009607723 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Clymer Library | 306.89 WHI (Text) | 32596000522440 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Easton Main Library | 306.89 W582d (Text) | 31901004610426 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
