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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0312199430
ISBN-13
9780312199432
Publication Date
Feb 1999
Item Weight
0.85 pounds
Length
8.19 inch
Width
5.35 inch
Height
1.14 inch
First Sentence
In September of 1874, the great Cheyenne "Sweet Medicine Chief" Little Wolf made the long overland journey to Washington, D.C., with a delegation of his tribesman for the express purpose of making a lasting peace wit the whites.
