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While people have been sending messages back and forth to arrange marriages sightunseen throughout history, the slightly more modern concept of mailorder brides is generally considered to have originated during the days of the American Frontier a region that, for a time, was decidedly lacking in members of the female persuasion. At the same time, the east coast of the U.S. had something of a surplus of single ladies, especially following the Civil War.

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