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One thousand white women

the journals of May Dodd

By Jim Fergus

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Publish Date

1999

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Language

eng

Pages

304

Description:

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.