One Thousand White Women

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • cheyenne indians
  • cheyenne indians in fiction
  • diary fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • frontier and pioneer life
  • frontier and pioneer life, fiction
  • frontier and pioneer life in fiction
  • historical fiction
  • indians of north america, fiction
  • interracial marriage
  • interracial marriage in fiction
  • little wolf, in fiction
  • marriage, fiction
  • western stories
  • west (u.s.), fiction
  • women pioneers
  • women pioneers in fiction