One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

ISBN: 031218008X

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

Author: Jim Fergus

KDL Description:

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

Amazon Description:

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.