One 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.
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