One thousand white women : the journals of May Dodd
By - Fergus, Jim
Floor
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Floor 3
Published
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St. Martin's Griffin, New York, NY, 1998
ISBN 13 - 9781250154705
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Cheyenne Indians
Shelf No
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4
Call Number
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813.54 FER
Physical Description
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482 pages ; 21 cm
One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is far better fare than the life she left behind. 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 of freedom is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from the "civilized" world become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is the story of May's breathtaking adventures: her 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 two worlds, loving two men, living two lives