One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Jim Fergus

St. Martin's Press, Feb 15, 1999 - Fiction - 464 pages

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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Review: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

User Review  - Eliane - Goodreads

Interesting! Barely historical fiction in that the government experiment of sending white women to intermarry with the Cheyenne Indians is not fact but the story is based on a proposal to the US Govt ...

Review: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

User Review  - Fern Coon - Goodreads

I loved the story. The characters were well developed and were often humorous. This could be a movie possibility. I really didn't want the book to end, because I would discover if the story was true ...

About the author

Jim Fergus is field editor and monthly columnist for sports Afield magazine and also writes a monthly feature on the AllOutdoors.com Web site. His work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of the nonfiction book A Hunter's Road. He lives in northern Colorado.

Bibliographic information

• Title: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
• Author: Jim Fergus
• Edition: 3, reprint, revised
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0312199430, 9780312199432
• Length: 464 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Historical