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The Divorce Seekers - A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.890979355
EAN: 9780970167811
ISBN: 0970167814
Label: BMC Publications
Manufacturer: BMC Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 444
Publication Date: March 01, 2004
Publisher: BMC Publications
Sales Rank: 360039
Studio: BMC Publications
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In 1931, in the teeth of the Great Depression, the Nevada legislature made a daring move and created two legalized industries: gambling and the six week divorce. By the 1940s, I m going to Reno! was synonymous with divorce and divorce seekers came running by the thousands. If you had the money and the need for privacy, you came to one of the dude ranches where the clientele was upscale.
Former dude wrangler Bill McGee may have written the ultimate kiss-and-tell in THE DIVORCE SEEKERS: A PHOTO MEMOIR OF A NEVADA DUDE WRANGLER. This is a firsthand account by someone who saw the epic era of the six week Reno divorce. McGee had a front row seat during his years in the 1940s working on the Flying M E, an exclusive dude ranch twenty miles south of Reno that catered to wealthy Easterners with names like Astor, du Pont and Roosevelt, and Hollywood celebrities like Gable, Gardner and Hayworth.
Part I, Cowboyin Memoirs. Follows the author from his post-war days at Montana State on the G. I. Bill, to cowboyin in Wyoming s Yellowstone National Park, to the chance conversation in Reno s Round Up Bar which landed him the coveted job as head dude wrangler on the Flying M E.
Part II, The Famous Flying M E Ranch and the Changing Cast of Characters. Stories about the ranch guests, how they passed their six weeks, their favorite watering holes and sightseeing places, and why some of them never returned to the East to live.
Part III, Getting Untied. An overview of Nevada s migratory divorce business, how the legislated businesses of divorce and gambling helped Nevada through the Great Depression, and how Nevada s lenient divorce law led the way for uncontested divorces in other states.
Part IV, Other Leading Nevada Dude-Divorce Ranches, Circa 1930-1960. Profiles the TH Ranch (Nevada s first dude ranch), the other leading Nevada dude-divorce ranches of the era, plus a brief history of the origins of dude ranching in the West.
More than 500 black-and-white photographs (most from private collections and never before published), give the reader an up-close glimpse into life on an exclusive dude ranch.
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This spring 20th Century Fox re-released its 1939 film, CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO, in a 4-DVD box set, THE CHARLIE CHAN COLLECTION, VOL. 4.Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 4 (Charlie Chan in Honolulu / Charlie Chan in Reno / Charlie Chan at Treasure Island / City in Darkness) (4DVD)
CHARLIE CHAN IN RENO may be the perfect Reno divorce movie. Although it is set at a swank Reno hotel catering to divorce seekers, the similarity in character types who stayed at the dude ranch where I worked rings ... Read More
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Bill and Sandra McGee have authored a fascinating account of an almost forgotten era of the Old West. The old days of the romantic Nevada dude ranch unfold in a format reminiscent of "The Love Boat". Told through the eyes of real life cowboy, Bill McGee, we see east coast patrons come and go through the gates of the famous Flying M E Guest ranch. The dude guests are mostly women arrived to establish a six (6) week residency before securing a quickie divorce. And while lounging at the Flying M E, ... Read More
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The McGees have pulled together a remarkable historic and pictoral event in Nevada history. Nevada's easy divorce laws attracted the rich and famous to well known Divorce Ranches, complete with horses and swimming pools. Bill McGee was a wrangler at one of the better known "ranches". McGee introduced divorcees to horses and the spectacular Sierra Nevada Mountains. As the daughter of a former owner of one of the nearby smaller divorce sites (we didn't offer horses or a pool), I was impressed with the ... Read More
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A great and very personal account of the times when everybody who was anybody spent six weeks in Reno to cut the bands that had bound them in their homes,churches, cities and states. Provacative text supported by even more provacative photographs.
Biographer:Adriana and veteran attorney: Tom Williams, San Francisco
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If you love history, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and cowboys, this book is for you. Being from Minnesota and working at Lake Tahoe in the mid-70's and now being a resident of Reno, I found this book to be a lot more than it's title indicates. Yes, the Reno area was known for being the Divorce Capital of the World, but Bill McGee takes the reader into the back mountains of the Sierras, into the world of New York socialites settling in Virginia City and into what must have been a unique place to live and work ... Read More
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