Marcia Zug's "Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches" is the first book-length treatment of the history of mail-order marriage, and it makes a powerful case for the reexamination of ...
Cursed with irresistible beauty—irresistible, at least, to the female-starved, gold-mining men of the 19th-century town of Silver Wind, Colo.—schoolteacher Melissa Grayson is forced by outraged ...