One thousand white women : the journals of May Dodd
1000 white women.
Jim Fergus.
- Second St. Martin's Griffin edition.
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2011.
- xiv, 436 pages ; 21 cm
Includes Reading Group Gold selection (reading group guide).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-436).
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
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