01697cam a2200337 4500 388794062 TxAuBib 20090313120000.0 010530s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780312180089 031218008X TxAuBib Fergus, Jim, 1950- One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd / Jim Fergus. 1000 White Women. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998. 324 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Thousand White Women ; 1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-304). 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. 20010530. Little Wolf d. 1904 Fiction. Frontier and Pioneer Life West (U.S) Fiction. Interracial Marriage West (U.S) Fiction. Women Pioneers West (U.S) Fiction. Cheyenne Indians Fiction. Diary Fiction. Historical Fiction. Western Stories. Thousand White Women ; 1.