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One Thousand White Women

The Journals of May Dodd
Fergus, Jim (Book - 1998)
Average Rating: 3.5 stars out of 5.
One Thousand White Women


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One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration

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One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.

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Alternate Title: 1000 white women
Imprint: New York : - St Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Edition: 1st ed
ISBN: 031218008X
Language: English
Statement of responsibility: Jim Fergus
Characteristics: 304 p. ;,25 cm.
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May 08, 2012
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  • Altansky rated this: 5 stars out of 5.

Gripping!

This is an impressive historical novel, terse, convincing, affecting and so well written it trasports readers to another time and place so that when they close the book, they are astonished to find themselves returned to their everday lives.

Great book! Excellent insight into the Native Amercian "resettlement". While fictional, much of what happened, minus the main plot-line, could have been real. Great read.

Jan 13, 2012
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  • lmpmaxwell rated this: 4 stars out of 5.

Great story

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