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  • I thoroughly enjoyed this historical fiction novel. It is written as an autobiography of a woman named May Dodd who was in mental institution until she agrees to participates in a secret government program that agreed to marry one thousand white women to the Cheyenne tribe of Native Americans. I f ... Continue

    I thoroughly enjoyed this historical fiction novel. It is written as an autobiography of a woman named May Dodd who was in mental institution until she agrees to participates in a secret government program that agreed to marry one thousand white women to the Cheyenne tribe of Native Americans. I found it to be a wonderful adventure, funny and sad and surprisingly very believable.

    

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  • I often wonder sometimes if events would have occured differently how that might have changed history. What if President Grant had said yes to the request? Would have it have it occured something like Fergus describes or would it have been successful?

    

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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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