In 1865, the governor of Massachusetts proposed the transport of some of the 38,000 excess women in his state to Oregon and California, where women were in short supply.
Rebecca Traister
In 1865, the governor of Massachusetts proposed the transport of some of the 38,000 excess women in his state to Oregon and California, where women were in short supply.
Rebecca Traister (born 1975) is an American author and journalist. Traister is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and its website The Cut, and a contributing editor at Elle magazine. Traister wrote for The New Republic from February 2014 through June 2015.
