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Romance and Courtship in the American West
This illustration accompanies an essay by Mary Hallock Foote in which she observes that eastern girls coming west attract admirers and risk encouraging romantic expectations that neither party can meet. She creates an atmosphere of restraint by positioning the young woman and man far apart and making little eye contact. When Foote married a mining engineer, she left a budding career on the East Coast, but continued illustrating and writing under often challenging conditions. |