His Mail Order Bride Notice Explained Why He Was Late — She Had Been Keeping a Promise Too
In the spring of eighteen eighty-nine, a farmer in Nevada placed a notice that opened with the one sentence most men would have buried at the bottom. A woman in Ohio read it. She had been keeping a promise too. The story of Arthur Cane and Edith Holt. Nevada, 1889. Subscribe for a new story every Tuesday and Friday. #MailOrderBride #frontierromance #westernromance #pioneerstories #americanfrontier #lovestory
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His Mail Order Bride Notice Listed One Leg First — She Answered Anyway
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He Left a Mail Order Bride Notice Saying the War Had Changed Him — She Was the First to Ask How
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He Told Her, "You're Too Much of a City Girl" — She Couldn't Wait to Prove Him Wrong
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"Who Fixed Your Wagon, Ma'am?" the Foreman Laughed — Her Six-Year-Old Pointed at Her
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I Said, 'This Big Old House Is Too Quiet'... She Whispered, 'Then Let Me Fill It With Life.'
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He Handed Her His Worst Horse to Make Her Leave — She Rode It and Never Looked Back at Him
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Billionaire Rancher Heard I Was Too Big to Dance — Then He Led Me to the Center
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The Bride Wore Black at Her Own Wedding — the Groom Knew Exactly Why
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He Expected a Plain Frontier Wife — But His Mail Order Bride Was Hiding a Fortune in Her Trunk
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He Sent for a Stranger to Share His Cabin—She Walked In and Changed His Whole Life
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"Can You Keep the Books?" He Asked the Widow No Bank Would Hire—and She Saved His Ranch by Spring
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His Mail Order Bride Notice Described His Face Before Anything Else
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She Whispered, 'I Have No Family Left'... And I Said, 'Funny, My Children Need A Mother.'
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He Asked If She'd Stayed for Supper—She Said Yes and Never Found a Reason to Go
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Her Late Father Left Her Nothing but a Waterfall—Then She Found the Cabin Hidden Behind It
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He Hired Her to Save the Ranch — Now He Can't Watch Her Leave
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He Wrote His Mail Order Bride Notice Knowing He Would Go Blind
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She Said, "The Barn's Warm Enough" — By Winter, They Shared the Same Roof
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"You're Staying" He Said to the Widow Nobody Wanted—Then He Meant It Forever
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