Review: Ready or not
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
Somehow we've moved to the season of Mail Order Brides.  The period is in the chaos after the Civil War, aka. War Between the States, etc.  The war was a genuine 'widow maker' and historically the costliest in human loss of life in US history.  Meanwhile, the west was a man's world.  The mail order marriage business was a simple matter of supply and demand.  How happy these unions were is a matter of debate, just as the infamous 'orphan trains' had very mixed results (during the same period).  In an era of Match.com and eHarmony, etc.  looking at one of the precursors to today's spin lends another set of eyes to another experiment in social engineering in a time when beggars really couldn't be very choosey.