Enter to win a library of books about mail-order brides and romance on the frontier.
Drawing will be held on Friday, March 14.
Advertisement from a mail-order bride dated October 12, 1890. “Boys, I am a lonesome little girl, alone in the world and earning my own living and tired of doing so; my age is 20 years, weight 145, height 5 feet 3 inches, blue eyes, dark hair, good housekeeper, am considered good looking, have some means, also piano; common school education; prefer country life; will marry if suited; no Catholics need to write.”
