One Thousand White Women

An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alt... (more)

An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair. (less)

One thousand white women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of th... (more)

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. Author Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time. (less)

An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alt... (more)

An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair. (less)