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Hearts West : True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
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Hearts West : True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier Paperback - 2005

by Enss and Chartier

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Hearts West : True Stories of Mail-Order Brides on the Frontier
  • Author Enss and Chartier
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, Helena, Montana, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8392641-6
  • ISBN 9780762727568 / 076272756X
  • Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.08 x 0.39 in (22.86 x 15.44 x 0.99 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.), Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005046363
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.82

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From the publisher

Hearts West includes more than a dozen stories of courageous mail order brides and their exploits. Accompanying the text are actual advertisements placed by both women seeking husbands and men seeking brides.

From the rear cover

WANTED: A girl who will love, honest, true and not sour;a nice little cooing dove, and willing to work in flour.Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, thousands of men traveled West to the emerging frontier, where they outnumbered women twelve to one. Only after they arrived did some of them realize how much they missed female companionship.Hearts West brings to life true stories of mail-order brides of the Gold Rush era. Some found soul mates; others found themselves in desperate situations. Complete with the actual hearts-and-hands personal advertisements that began some of the long-distance courtships, this fascinating book provides an up-close look at the leap of faith these men and women were willing to take.

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About the author

New York Times bestselling author Chris Enss is an award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies. She is the co-author (with JoAnn Chartier) of The Globe Pequot Press's Love Untamed: True Romances Stories of the Old West, Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West, and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon: Women Patriots and Soldiers of the Old West and The Cowboy and the Senorita and Happy Trails (with Howard Kazanjian). Her research and writing and reveals the funny, touching, exciting, and tragic stories of historical and contemporary times.

Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stunt person at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona, and she is currently working with Return of the Jedi producer Howard Kazanjian on the movie version of The Cowboy and the Senorita, their biography of western stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (Globe Pequot).

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