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Matchmaking was important business out West, as mail-order brides and bridegrooms were willing to put down their money and throw the dice for ‘happily ever after’. Listed as announcement No. 245 and dated January 7, 1857, this honest and detailed personal advertisement was one of thousands such personals that appeared in mail-order newspapers, magazines and …
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