One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd | Jim Fergus

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd | Jim Fergus | 1000 White Women

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One Thousand White...

	One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd Jim Fergus St. Martin's Griffin, 1999 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 261 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Romance on the Trail

Hurray for audiotapes...it kept us sane for 1800 miles across the middle and southwest U.S.! My book club actually was the instigator for my purchase, and I had planned to buy a book, but when the only version of this title available was audiotape, I WENT for it given I had a long road trip in front of me. Although my husband rolled his eyes at some of the female conversations, even HE got hooked to the story, the variation in voices, tone and intrigue that the reader brought to the story. It was a fluke that turned out to be a story both my husband and I enjoyed as well as learned some history!

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1000 White Women

I really enjoyed this well-written historical fiction novel about a group of outcast white women who participate in secret government program to assimilate the Cheyenne. I've recommended it to a number of friends and family members. I do suggest you buy the paperback edition, which includes a very interesting essay by the author, Jim Fergus.

entertaining "What if".....

I ran across this book while browsing my local bookstore and decided to give it a try. I am always ready for a relistic western. This one grabbed me from the first page and did not let go. A great mix of characters, dialog, and action with a few surprises. The book also makes you think about cultures and why we are the way we are. That being said I would not classify it as high literature, but it is an entertaining "What if." It might have been helpful if the author had written an addendum, outlining what was real and what was made up. The one part that really rang false to me was how quickly the white women adapted to the Indian ways seemed farfetched, but then as a device to highlight the differences between the European and Indian cultures it works. I guess what I am saying is this could never have happened in real life, but maybe it if it had things might have been diferent.

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Compelling story-telling

This novel is the work of a highly skilled author, from the very concept of the book on to the myriad of its details and, finally, insofar as the language with which the story is told.

The premise is brilliant, no other word for it, based on an obscure (and peculiar) historic moment--but reversing the real-life situation.

Author Jim Fergus took this germ of an idea and worked it into a full-length plot that is rich in historic detail. He clearly put an amazing amount of research into his writing.

At no time does he lose the momentum of his narrative, told in the first-person voice of his heroine.

While there is no way this book could have had a happy ending, the conclusion of this book could have been a bit more definitive. The heroine deserved a clearer outcome...and so did the readers.

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