Men's Book Discussion Group: One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
The Men's Discussion Group discussed One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus and J. Will Dodd issuing a rating (on a scale of 1 - 5 stars) of 4.7 stars for readability and 4 stars for interest.
Based on an actual historical event, One Thousand White Women tells the story--in diary and letter form--of a young woman, who in 1875, travels to the American West to marry Little Wolf, the chief of the Cheyenne nation. May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travels 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.
- Street:
- Redbery Books
- Additional:
- 43455 Kavanaugh Road
- City:
- Cable ,
- Province:
- Wisconsin
- Postal Code:
- 54821
- Country:
- United States
