Chris Enss

Hearts West (eBook, ePUB)

True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780762751648
• Artikelnr.: 41459278

Autorenporträt

Chris Enss is a New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. She has penned more than fifty published books on the subject. Her work has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a WILLA Award from Women Writing the West for Best Scholarly Nonfiction Book. Enss's most recent works are The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows, Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont "The Fifth Marx Brother," and The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier.

Inhaltsangabe

(1) Introduction (2) Mary Richardson & Elkanah Walker (3) Eleanor Berry &
Louis Dreielbis (4) Asa Mercer (5) Matrimonial News (6) Phoebe Harrington &
William Silbaugh (7) The Forlorn Bride (8) Bethenia Owens-Adair & Legrand
Hill (9) The Benton Brides (10) A Happy Ride (11) Rachel Bella Kahn &
Abraham Calof (12) Elinore Pruitt & Clyde Stewart (13) Trouble on a Bridal
Tour (14) The Red Stocking Snoozers (15) Eliza Farnham (16) Bridal Couples
(17) Kathleen Forrestall (18) The New Plan (19) Afterword (20) Bibliography