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Hearts West

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Complete with actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides, Hearts West includes twelve stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits. Some were fortunate enough to marry good men and live happily ever after; still others found themselves in desperate situations that robbed them of their youth and sometimes their lives.
Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, men sacrificed many creature comforts. Only after they arrived did some of them realize how much they missed female companionship.
One way for men living on the frontier to meet women was through subscriptions to heart-and-hand clubs. The men received newspapers with information, and sometimes photographs, about women, with whom they corresponded. Eventually, a man might convince a woman to join him in the West, and in matrimony. Social status, political connections, money, companionship, or security were often considered more than love in these arrangements.


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Publisher: TwoDot

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 28, 2014

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780762751648
  • Release date: July 28, 2014

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780762751648
  • File size: 3967 KB
  • Release date: June 12, 2013

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

History Nonfiction

Languages

English

Complete with actual advertisements from both women seeking husbands and males seeking brides, Hearts West includes twelve stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits. Some were fortunate enough to marry good men and live happily ever after; still others found themselves in desperate situations that robbed them of their youth and sometimes their lives.
Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, men sacrificed many creature comforts. Only after they arrived did some of them realize how much they missed female companionship.
One way for men living on the frontier to meet women was through subscriptions to heart-and-hand clubs. The men received newspapers with information, and sometimes photographs, about women, with whom they corresponded. Eventually, a man might convince a woman to join him in the West, and in matrimony. Social status, political connections, money, companionship, or security were often considered more than love in these arrangements.


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    TwoDot

    Kindle Book
    Release date: July 28, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780762751648
    Release date: July 28, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780762751648
    File size: 3967 KB
    Release date: June 12, 2013

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English