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 THE DIVORCE SEEKERS:
A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler
William L. McGee and Sandra McGee | Hardcover: 444 pages
Dimensions (in inches): 1.14 x 11.24 x 8.68
In 1947, young Montana cowboy Bill McGee signed on as the wrangler at an exclusive dude ranch outside of Reno catering to wealthy Easterners and Hollywood celebrities. In easy-flowing, anecdotal prose, McGee brings to life the memorable characters and places he knew during Reno’s elegant era as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” Using extensive research and interviews, plus more than 500 b&w photographs (most never before published), Bill McGee and his co-author/wife Sandra McGee have captured priceless stories about bygone times and glamorous people during a unique epoch of the American West. Appendices summarize the origins of the Western dude ranch, profile other leading Nevada divorce ranches, and describe Nevada’s divorce trade during the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. In the 1930s and ‘40s, the media coined the term “divorce seekers” to describe the thousands of men and women who came running to Reno for a six week divorce.
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