One Thousand White Women (20th Anniversary Edition): The Journals of May Dodd - Brossura

FERGUS, JIM

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ISBN 10: 1250154707 ISBN 13: 9781250154705

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2017

Riassunto

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.

“Jim Fergus knows his country in a way that's evocative Dee Brown and all the other great writers of the American West and its native peoples. But One Thousand White Women is more than a chronicle of the Old West. It's a superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph that leaves the reader waiting to turn the page and wonderfully wrung out at the end.” —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump

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L'autore:

Jim Fergus is an award winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers. He is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books, including The Vengeance of Mothers. Jim divides his time between southern Arizona, northern Colorado, and France.

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1250154707
• ISBN 13: 9781250154705
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 494