One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women Series, 1) - Softcover

Fergus, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250183049 ISBN 13: 9781250183040

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2018

Synopsis

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

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From the Publisher

WINNER OF THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS BOOKSELLERS AWARD

"Jim Fergus's One Thousand White Women is a splendid, fresh, and engaging novel. Strikingly original." --Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall

"A most impressive novel that melds the physical world to the spiritual. One Thousand White Women is engaging, entertaining, well-written, and well-told. It will be widely read for a long time, as will the rest of Jim Fergus's work." --Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be

"Jim Fergus knows his country in a way that's evocative of Dee Brown and all the other great writers of the American West and its native peoples. But One Thousand White Women is more than a chronicle of the Old West. It's a superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph that leaves the reader waiting to turn the page and wonderfully wrung out at the end." --Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump

"The best writing transports readers to another time and place, so that when they reluctantly close the book, they are astonished to find themselves returned to their everyday lives. One Thousand White Women is such a book. Jim Fergus so skillfully envelopes us in the heart and mind of the main character, May Dodd, that we weep when she mourns, we shake our fist at anyone who tries to sway her course, and our hearts pound when she is in danger." --Colorado Springs Gazette

"An impressive historical...terse, convincing, and affecting." --Kirkus Reviews

From the Back Cover

'I leave this record for my dear children, in the event that they never see their loving mother again and so that they might one day know the truth of my unjust incarceration, my escape from Hell, and into whatever is to come in these pages...'

So begins May Dodd's fictional chronicle of her journey west, in 1875, into the unknown--whatever fate awaits her must be better than the life she left behind. Her freedom comes from the 'Brides for Indians' scheme, a secret government plan to pacify the Cheyenne nation by supplying a thousand willing women from the 'civilized' world to become the brides of their warriors. What follows is the story of May's breathtaking adventures: her brief, passionate romance with a gallant young army captain, her marriage to the great Cheyenne chief, Little Wolf, and her life among the savages.

Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman caught between two worlds, loving two men and living two lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1250183049
• ISBN 13: 9781250183040
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528