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.
3/5 stars (liked it)
I really enjoyed the writing style and the voice of May Dodd. It really made be believe that everything in these books were 100% real. May Dodd along with some of her friends went through a lot in the course of a few months. All the women were escaping something and in the case of May, the Insane Asylum. They all found life with the Cheyennes to be rough but enjoyable and some even grew to love their spouses. I like how you find out what happens to each women at the end along with May's descendents.
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