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

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd | Jim Fergus | 1,000 white women = 1,000 fascinating brave stories

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

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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Love historical fiction!

I read this book a few years ago. It still stands as one of my favorite books of all time. Anytime I can still remember a book and its plot after a few weeks, it is worthy of a review, it must be memorable. I have to say, you do believe you are there and it could have actually happened. An excellent read!

1,000 white women = 1,000 fascinating brave stories

Luv the speed w/which I rcd the book. LOVED the book!!! We read it for book club & couldn't say enough about the women in the book or the author's ability to make us feel right there going thru every joy & sorrow w/them. Touching & uplifting!

Fabulous! Especially in Audio Form

I listened to this book on my MP3 player and simply loved it! The narration was as exceptional as the book itself. I have suggested it already to many of my friends.

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Wonderful story!

A wonderful story about a group of women thrown into a completely different culture and forced to become part of the Indian community. Very well written and compelling, after a few chapters you won't want to put it down! Paints an intriguing picture of how life was like for the American Indians and how two completely different cultures can come together and the people can learn to accept each other and even protect those who were recently strangers.

Very readable, however full of cliched characters and situations.

The book was definitely a page-turner, but more along the lines of a well-written romance novel than anything else. The characters were all cliches, from the plucky, intelligent, young and beautiful heroine (May Dodd) to the Indian chief full of integrity and quiet strength (who naturally picked May to be his bride). The heroine always gets the best guy in the story! It was hard to tell fact from fiction, but in the end it didn't really matter. This is a great book to read at the beach, but doesn't have much more literary value that that.

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