One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

Type

Book

Authors

Fergus, Jim

ISBN 10

031218008X

ISBN 13

9780312180089

Tags

Biographical, Westerns, United States, Cheyenne Indians, Interracial marriage, Women pioneers, Little Wolf, Diary fiction, Man-woman relationships

Abstract

"Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One thousand white women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope of freedom is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from the 'civilized' world become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is the story of May's breathtaking adventures: her brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to the great chief Little Wolf; and her conflict of being caught between two worlds, loving two men, living two lives." --

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Western fiction
Diary fiction
Historical fiction
Fiction
Named Person: Little Wolf; Little Wolf
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jim Fergus
ISBN: 031218008X 9780312180089 9780312199432 0312199430 1250154707 9781250154705
OCLC Number: 1013508951
Notes: "A novel" -- From cover.
Description: 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Other Titles: 1000 white women
Journals of May Dodd
Responsibility: Jim Fergus.

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