![]() ![]() ![]() Please support your independent bookseller. So vividly has Jim Fergus depicted the American West, that May Dodd’s journals are like a capsule in time.Ĭlick to enlarge To order this title online:Īlso available at your local bookstore. ![]() 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. Fergus lets his imagination go wild and creates a journal of one of his ancestors who became. 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. Series One Thousand White Women Series, Book 1 Critic Reviews. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. ![]() ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN begins with May Dodd’s journey west into the unknown. “I leave this record for my dear children, Hortense and William, in the event that they never see their loving mother again and so that they might one day know the truth of my unjust incarceration, my escape from Hell, and into whatever is to come in these pages…” - from the journals of May Doddīased on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of a remarkable woman who travels west in 1875 and marries the Chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd ![]()
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