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<p><P><i>One Thousand White Women</i> is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.</p><h3>Kirkus Reviews</h3><p>Long, brisk, charming first novel about an 1875 treaty between Ulysses S. Grant and Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne nation, by the sports reporter and author of the memoir <i>A Hunter's Road</i> (1992). Little Wolf comes to Washington and suggests to President Grant that peace between the Whites and Cheyenne could be established if the Cheyenne were given white women as wives, and that the tribe would agree to raise the children from such unions. The thought of miscegenation naturally enough astounds Grant, but he sees a certain wisdom in trading 1,000 white

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Author

Fergus, Jim

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Griffin

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250154705

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (87,293 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14