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May Dodd is an excellent narrator because she is romantic and dramatic but also straightforward and honest. The author has a very descriptive writing style; even the act of squatting to urinate was given poetic phrasing ("for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make, absorbed by the sandy soil, dried instantly by the constant prairie wind...").
The ending was a bit abrupt but I understand the reasons why and the epilogue helped wrap everything up.
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The ending was a bit abrupt but I understand the reasons why and the epilogue helped wrap everything up.
This is a solid ...more
In One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, Jim Fergus crafts a story of what might have occured had the request by a Northern Cheyenne chief for white women as brides to help assimilate Native Americans to white culture had been granted during a peace conference in 1854. May Dodd is rounded up to be a bride because she is in an asylum for having a relationship and children with a man below her station in life. She keeps journals to recount how this "giving of brides" played out. I th
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Intriguing look at how it might have been. Personal research would take time, but would like to check out some of the resources the author used.
