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Object Matrimony:
The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier
If these matchmaking ads for women seeking a husband from 1877 were posted online today, I suspect they’d go viral.
“The people say that I am a good neighbor; a nice housekeeper, good cook and fine manager, always clean and neat, fond of home and children, and try to make home the happiest place on earth; am a widow; American, age 43, weight 120, height 5 feet 4 inches, blue eyes, brown hair, good education; have $500 personal property; object matrimony.”
“Here I am boys, all the way from Texas, a black-eyed maiden of 30 years with dark hair, a brunette type, weight 115, height 5 feet 4 inches, nationality German, religion Protestant, college education and piano player; wish to correspond with businessmen, Western men preferred, between the age 40 to 45. Will answer all letters.”
To learn more about the serious business of finding a husband or wife by mail in the wide-open days of the Old West read Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail-Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier.
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