Name: One Thousand White Women
ISBN: 9781410458070

Jim Fergus

A portrait of the American West follows May Dodd as she leaves the East Coast asylum to which she had been committed by her high-society family, heads west, and ends up marrying a chief of the Cheyenne nation.

The Journals of May Dodd

One Thousand White Women

the journals of May Dodd

One thousand white women

Sarah Sammis

I don't think I've read a book like this before. It's an interesting alternative look at frontier history and US/Cheyanne relations. The various women in the book are nicely flushed out as characters rather than being cookie cutter versions of the narrator. I've read actual diary accounts from women on the frontier from this time period and the style of May's prose fits with those actual journels, making it hard to remember at times that this story is in fact a novel.

Natalie Sypeck 

I’ve never given a book one star, even books I’ve not finished in the past I’ve give 3 stars since the writing was good, the story just didn’t resonate with. But with this book i just can’t bring myself to give more than one star. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of gay books, so very little lead female characters. This book was a very rude awakenings into the world of female lead characters. The author seemed to want to make his female strong and independent, but then would turn around and have moan about her ex baby daddy. I also don’t like the way he talked about the Indians. I made it less than halfway through the book and will never regret not finishing it.

Abbie Duggan

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The Journals of May Dodd (Sound Library)

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Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey into an unknown world. Having been 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 for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from “civilized” society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures—May’s 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 loving two men and living two completely different lives. “Fergus portrays the perceptions and emotions of women...with tremendous insight and sensitivity.”—Booklist “A superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph.” —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump “Impressive...convincing...affecting.” —Kirkus Reviews

One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd

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