Books like One thousand white women by Jim Fergus
May Dodd, scorned by her respectable family in 1874 for loving beneath her station, finds freedom in a clandestine program that sends “civilized” women into the lives of Cheyenne warriors. As she travels west, May’s journey is marked by a romance with a young Army captain and later a marriage to the Grand Chief Little Wolf. Caught between two cultures and two loves, May balances her new life as a frontier woman with the memories of her past, exploring themes of interracial marriage, frontier and pioneer life, and the struggles of women pioneers.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: Historical Fiction/19th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Jim Fergus
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