false <![CDATA[One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255646215m/33512.jpg 33512 19 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. 527677 1998 One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd total:5850|5:1585|4:2283|3:1369|2:426|1:187| 5850 22203 7975 1326 2 24 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 17:49:20 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 23:29:20 -0800 2009
I received your letter of 20 January 1876, accompanied by portions of your journal, and, in short, I'm not falling for it. They sound like they were written sometime in the 1990s, and probably by a man. While I found many reasons to come to this conclusion, the biggest give...more...]]> 2 7 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 09:47:02 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 10:03:52 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 19:51:55 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 23 13:18:12 -0700 2008
From Booklist, by Grace Fill

An American western with a most unusual twist, this is an imaginative fictional account of the participation of May Dodd and others in the controversial "Brides for Indians" program, a clandestine U.S. government^-spon...more...]]> 2 3 false false Tue Aug 28 07:04:27 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 05:47:25 -0700 2007
The premise begins with a re-telling of the proposed "Brides for Indians" pact that went on in 1854, when a whole host of Cheyenne Native Americans came into DC and asked for 1000 white women to take back to the prairie. Their idea was that...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 13:16:06 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 13:41:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 4 false true Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 10:22:40 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 11:13:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 06:54:02 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 06:03:31 -0700 2008
Yes, after a lifetime of avoiding book clubs, perhaps its fitting that in my latest job one of my tasks is to lead a book club. And guess what the first title is?

On the plus side, it was a quick read. An amalgamation of cliches a...more...]]> 3 2 false false Tue Nov 20 15:01:20 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 20:22:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 19:09:31 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 19:15:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Sep 06 19:48:30 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 05:03:11 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 23 13:18:12 -0700 2008 The basic story of the book I think is intriguing an...more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Dec 23 13:44:12 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 18:18:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 20:17:58 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 22:40:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 11:12:54 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 22:58:48 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 16 12:17:36 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 12:17:36 -0700 2008
When book club first selected this book, I was somewhat skeptical about it, since I hadn't heard of t...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 00:04:54 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 04:52:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Feb 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 19:45:23 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 19:45:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sat Jan 12 18:06:02 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 18:34:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:34:25 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 10:32:54 -0700 2007
Finished last night - entertaining but depressing too.

This is about a group of white women who go to live with the Cheyenne Indians in the late 1800s.

It starts with a fictionalized account of ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 07:08:13 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 07:36:57 -0700 2007
Strengths: interesting exploration of how people adapt to a completely different ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Sep 07 16:42:17 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 16:50:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=33512