![]() ![]() ![]() “A rich, imaginative harvest of historical detail.” - San Antonio Express Out at the end.” - Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author That leaves the reader waiting to turn the page and wonderfully wrung It’s a superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph One Thousand White Women is more than a chronicle of the Old ![]() The other great writers of the American West and its native peoples. “Jim Fergus knows his country in a way that’s evocative Dee Brown and all It was a hard book to put down-even after the last word was read." Each character had their own reason for "volunteering" as well as their own personality shine throughout the book. ![]() The character development was what hooked me in. "Not a major history buff myself, there was enough historical reference to trigger vague memories of recognition-although I couldn't tell you how accurate most of it was. Author Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man’s world. The covert and controversial Brides for Indians program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the US government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. ![]()
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