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The “mail order brides” of the American west were the “supply” that met two “demands”. For the men of the west who far outnumbered women and wanted to create families, farms, towns, a mail order bride could be the solution. For young women of the eastern states who faced loneliness, poverty, and the social stigma of spinsterhood if they didn’t marry, being a mail order bride could offer social economic opportunity.
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