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Updated March 27, 2024

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In the early 1890s, the Minnehaha County courthouse played host to some of the country's most sensational public divorce trials.

Seeking the Last Remnants of South Dakota’s ‘Divorce Colony’

How Sioux Falls became a controversial Gilded Age “Mecca for the mismated.”
by April White
The Cataract House Hotel offered luxury in a frontier town.

The Legendary, Lavish Dinner Parties of South Dakota's Divorce Colony

For a time, wealthy divorce seekers headed to the frontier.
by Zara Stone

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