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One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd - by Jim Fergus (Paperback)

One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd -  by Jim Fergus (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> Fergus' award-winning classic novel, now in a tall Premium Edition. Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd, a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. Martin's Griffin. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> <p><b>Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this</b> <b>is the story of May Dodd--a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.</b> <p/><i>One Thousand White Women</i> begins with May Dodd's journey into an unknown world. Having been 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 for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from "civilized" society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures--May's 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 loving two men and living two completely different lives. <p/><b>"Fergus portrays the perceptions and emotions of women...with tremendous insight and sensitivity."--<i>Booklist </i><br></b><br><b>"A superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph." --Winston Groom, <i>author of Forrest Gump</i></b></p> <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> <p><b>Praise for <i>One Thousand White Women</i></b> <p/>"<b>A most impressive novel </b>that melds the physical world to the spiritual. <i>One Thousand White Women </i>is <b>engaging, entertaining, well-written, and well-told. </b>It will be widely read for a long time, as will the rest of Jim Fergus's work." --Rick Bass, <i> author of Where the Sea Used to Be</i> <p/>"<b>Jim Fergus knows his country</b> in a way that's evocative Dee Brown and all the other great writers of the American West and its native peoples. But <i>One Thousand White Women </i>is more than a chronicle of the Old West. It's <b>a superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph</b> that leaves the reader waiting to turn the page and wonderfully wrung out at the end." --Winston Groom, <i> author of Forrest Gump</i> <p/>"The best writing transports readers to another time and place, so that when they reluctantly close the book, they are astonished to find themselves returned to their everyday lives. <i>One Thousand White Women </i>is such a book. <b>Jim Fergus so skillfully envelops us in the heart and mind of his main character, </b> May Dodd, that we weep when she mourns, we shake our fist at anyone who tries to sway her course, and our hearts pound when she is in danger." --<i>Colorado Springs Gazette</i> <p/>"An impressive historical...<b>terse, convincing, and affecting</b>." --<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p> <p/><br></br><p><b> About The Author </b></p></br></br> JIM FERGUS is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers. He is the author of several fiction and nonfiction books. His novel <i>One Thousand White Women </i>won Best Book of the West and has sold over a million copies both in the U.S. and France. Jim divides his time between southern Arizona, northern Colorado, and France.

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