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 One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus
Newest Review: ... Dodd. From the start I was drawn in by this story and interested in seeing what it would be like for women off to a ... more  ... different world - in that time it really would have been going into the unknown. The author initially manages to draw up a believable cast of women who would have wanted to marry into the society, for a fixed period of 2 years. From May who has been locked up in a mental asylum due to marrying and bearing two children to someone below her class status, to an ex-slave Phemie, Gretchen a Swiss larger than life but not classically beautiful woman, and Daisy, a ditched and disgraced bride, these women do seem believable at the ...more |
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One Thousand White Women - Jim Fergus: When Two Tribes try Stop War... (934 words)
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When browsing the shelves of my local friendly charity book shop, this book leapt out at me, mainly as I was intrigued by the title "One Thousand White Women" - I couldn't imagine what it could be about. It turned out that this work of fiction, loosely based on an actual historical event in North America in the 1850's, turned out to be about a Cheyenne chief requesting 1000 white brides to be given to his people in the interests of peace and learning from each other - a kind of multiculturalism initiative ahead of its time. In reality as well in the eyes of "Little Wolf" the 50-something fictional chief in this story, Native ... Read the complete review
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