The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura comes a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own terms.

For a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls, South Dakota-one sure to garner disapproval from fellow passengers. On the American frontier, the new state offered a tempting freedom often ...