The Divorce Colony the shambling guides

The Divorce Colony the shambling guidesFrom a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes 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. For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakotaone sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the American frontier, the new

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learn how the past can deceive and limit us -- and how healthy skepticism can build a better world

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