#WomensNonfiction 18.
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier - by April White

This book needs to be a high budget HBO show.

At the end of the 19th century, Sioux Falls was known for its lax divorce laws: if someone resided there for 90 days, they could file for divorce. The town's main hotel fast became a "divorce colony" of desperate women (and some men) and their own private dramas.

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