One thousand white women : the journals of May Dodd
(2011, original release: 1998)
By:
Fergus, Jim
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/FERGUS,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2011
©1998
©1998
EDITION
Second St. Martin's Griffin edition
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 482 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
031218008X, 0312199430, 0312199430, 9780312199432, 9780312199432, 0312199430
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes Reading Group Gold selection (reading group guide)
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair
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