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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

3.0

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In One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, Jim Fergus crafts a story of what might have occured had the request by a Northern Cheyenne chief for white women as brides to help assimilate Native Americans to white culture had been granted during a peace conference in 1854. May Dodd is rounded up to be a bride because she is in an asylum for having a relationship and children with a man below her station in life. She keeps journals to recount how this "giving of brides" played out. I thought she was a great narrator smart and straight forward with a fair amount of humor toward her situation. I especially appreciated her observations on the Cheyenne culture. I loved some of the other brides as well, Phemie, Helen, and the twins. I enjoyed this book though it did have its moments where I was ready to be moving along.