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thrifty_librarian 's review for:
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
by Jim Fergus
White Americans are beginning to move out west, expanding their territory, slaughtering buffalo and Native Americans and searching for gold. Conflict with Native Americans is growing. To bridge the gap between the two peoples, the US government agrees to “give” the Cheyenne’s 1,000 white women as brides. This is a piece of fiction, though in reality the idea was discussed (and denied) in the 19th century.
The story is told through journal entries, primarily those of a woman who agrees to marry a Cheyenne.
The voice wasn’t believable – it read like a modern woman wrote it, rather than someone who lived in the mid 1800s. There also wasn’t much in the way of story, just a lot of general information that the author threw in to describe the culture of the time. He did attempt a love story, which was cheap and sappy and made the story even harder to read. The idea was great, but the execution was poor.
I did finish it, though I can't remember why.
The story is told through journal entries, primarily those of a woman who agrees to marry a Cheyenne.
The voice wasn’t believable – it read like a modern woman wrote it, rather than someone who lived in the mid 1800s. There also wasn’t much in the way of story, just a lot of general information that the author threw in to describe the culture of the time. He did attempt a love story, which was cheap and sappy and made the story even harder to read. The idea was great, but the execution was poor.
I did finish it, though I can't remember why.