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Hearts West
True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
Chris Enss
Softbound
Pages: 128
Publisher: TwoDot, First Edition
Date Published: June 1, 2005
"Hearts West" relays the true stories of mail-order brides and bachelors during the late 1800s
in America's wild west. Accurate information was collected through journals, newspapers,
letters, photographs, and other historical documents.
Many methods were used to bring women to the west. Matrimony magazines and newsletters were
the most common method. Men and women both wrote ads and answered by letter to find a suitable
mate. Samples in the book were surprisingly similar to today's online dating service ads.
More innovative methods include renting boats and shipping groups of women across country.
This book is filled with short anecdotes that tell a much larger story and provide a historical
viewpoint of relationships. This is a viewpoint that we don't often get enough of.
There are two themes in this book - the power of survival and the power of love. After only a
few letters passed between them, a man and a woman had to decide to meet and marry. For many
of the women it was a chance to make more of their life. Stuck in poverty, dead-end servant
jobs, or just the thought of spinsterhood drove them to take that plunge.
While some of these matches ended in disaster, others ended in long happy relationships.
"Hearts West" provides a good mix of humor, disaster, sweetness, and sadness to give an
overall picture of what our American ancestors went through, all for the sake of love and
survival.
This book has been gently read, and the pages are clean and
bright with gentle light wear to it's cover.
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PRICE: $14.95
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