The Divorce Seekers - Mcgee, William L.; McGee, Sandra V.
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RENO, 1947. Imagine you've had enough of your cheating spouse. You're ready to leave. But it's 1947. And that means unless your spouse "gives" you a divorce, you're stuck. Or you could go to Reno! Divorce seekers by the thousands were running to "The Divorce Capital of the World" for a six-week, no-fault divorce. If they had the money and the need for privacy, they stayed on one of the dude ranches around town. Someone called those dude ranches "divorce ranches" and the name stuck. Bill McGee was the dude wrangler on the famous Flying M E divorce ranch, an exclusive hideout for the wealthy. He…mehr

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RENO, 1947. Imagine you've had enough of your cheating spouse. You're ready to leave. But it's 1947. And that means unless your spouse "gives" you a divorce, you're stuck. Or you could go to Reno! Divorce seekers by the thousands were running to "The Divorce Capital of the World" for a six-week, no-fault divorce. If they had the money and the need for privacy, they stayed on one of the dude ranches around town. Someone called those dude ranches "divorce ranches" and the name stuck. Bill McGee was the dude wrangler on the famous Flying M E divorce ranch, an exclusive hideout for the wealthy. He entertained Easterners with names like Astor and du Pont, and Hollywood movie stars Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. In this book, you will find: - A captivating collection of true stories illustrated with photos from the author's collection or the private collections of former Flying M E guests. - A firsthand account of life on the exclusive Flying M E... as Bill McGee entertained guests on trail rides by day and escorted them to their favorite watering holes to drink and gamble by night. - A unique magazine-style layout, perfect for reading cover-to-cover or skipping around to your favorite stories... illustrated with with 180 vintage photos. - An Introduction by divorce ranch novelist Peggy Wynne Borgman, who sets the stage for the allure of 1940s Reno and how a little town out West changed the way people divorced in America. "...the only memoir written by a former Nevada divorce ranch wrangler." - Lynn Downey, author of American Dude Ranch - A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West "Bill McGee's stories are like an old Hollywood movie coming to life." - Judd Pillot, writer/producer "The book is a treasure if only for the photos alone-images of cowboys, the divorce ranch, old Virginia City, and Eastern socialites duding it up during their six-week cure."- Deb Caletti, author of The Secrets She Keeps, a divorce ranch novel
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William L. "Bill" McGee is no armchair historian. He writes about the history of which he was a part... whether it's growing up in Montana during the hardscrabble years of the Depression, or joining the Navy in 1942 at age seventeen simply to get into the fight, or cowboying on an exclusive divorce ranch in Nevada in the postwar '40s, or working in broadcasting in the early days of 1950s and '60s television.Bill McGee was born in 1925 and grew up cowboying in the cow town of Malta, Montana on the Hi-Line. In 1950, he left cowboying and made a successful transition into the broadcasting industry where he enjoyed a 32-year career and made a name for himself in broadcast marketing and sales. His writing career spanned six decades and his style has been described as straightforward, journalistic, and as "precise and economical as a Mickey Spillane novel." (Marine Corps League Magazine)