Complete with actual advertisements from both women seeking
husbands and males seeking brides, New York Times bestselling book
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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