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Read the West Book Club: All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses is the first volume in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. This National Book Awards winner for fiction tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With … Continued

Read the West Book Club: The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

With the laxest divorce laws in the country, five railroad lines and the finest hotel for hundreds of miles, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, became the unexpected headquarters for unhappy spouses—infamous around the world as the Divorce Colony. These society divorcees put Sioux Falls at the center of a heated national debate over the future of American … Continued

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