000			00965nam a2200181 4500
020			_a9781429938846
024			_a861523701
050			_aPS3556.E66
082			_a813.54
100	1		_aJim Fergus
245	1		_aOne Thousand White Women
260			_bMacmillan
300			_a304 pages
520			_aOne Thousand White Women 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.
650			_aWestern
650			_aHistorical Fiction
999			_c17918 _d17918