Young & Poor Boston Woman Faces the Wild Frontier

In the gritty tenements of late nineteenth century Boston, Abigail Merriweather eked out a life of drudgery and hopelessness. At just eighteen years of age, the weight of poverty crushed her spirit daily as she toiled away for meager wages. Raised by an abusive father after her mother's untimely death, Abigail knew her only escape lay in the prospect of becoming a mail order bride to a stranger ou...