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Nicole Underwood
nope - I didn't realize this either until I read the author's note at the END of the novel. I was TICKED! I felt mislead and also felt like an idiot for believing it up until that point - esp since it was in the historical fiction catagory...this is pure fiction
Mary Ann Johnson
Historical FICTION!!! Means it is set in historical time period but it IS fiction.
Noelle Baldwin
No, the premise of the book is what if it did happen?
Holly
The Authors note at the very beginning clearly states: "In all other respects this book is a work of fiction.".....
Marilyn
It did not occur; but if it had leaked to the press, I think the reactions would have been like those of the women in the book. A lot of shock and disgust at the idea of sacrificing "our flowers of womanhood" to the "savages", and then a number of women -- not as many as 1000, but a couple of dozen -- thinking "It could not be worse than my lot right now" and volunteering. One of May Dodd's companions on the train was a Southern belle whose parents died poor and whose intended refused to marry her. Another was a black woman. Another was an English ornithologist whose sponsor left her stranded without cash. May escaped from a lunatic asylum. (Her parents had her confined when she had two children by an 'inferior'.)
Roseanne Scanlan
What if pigs could fly - how is that for a premise
Karen M
As far I could research online there was no actual program but there was an Indian chief who asked for 100 white women as brides for his braves. He was refused.
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