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- Title: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
- Author: Jim Fergus
- ISBN: 9780312199432
- Page: 119
- Format: Paperback
↠ One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd ↠ Jim Fergus, ↠ One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd ↠ Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd 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 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 ass. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, ↠ One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd ↠ Jim Fergus - One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd, One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd 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 to intermarry among the
- ↠ One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd ↠ Jim Fergus119Jim Fergus
Dear May Dodd,I received your letter of 20 January 1876, accompanied by portions of your journal, and, in short, I m not falling for it They sound like they were written sometime in the 1990s, and probably by a man While I found many reasons to come to this conclusion, the biggest giveaways were your obsession with penis size and the fact that your signature was followed by an AOL e mail address.Sincerely,Disgruntled ReaderOK, that was a bit harsh and if for some reason Mr Fergus is reading this [...]
Author I have this book I want to publish.Publisher Okay, let me make sure it has what we are looking for in a book After all, the bulk of your previous writing experience appears to be for an outdoors magazine Correct Author Yes that is correct.Publisher Okay, is your book an attempt to write from a woman s point of view Author Yes Publisher Fantastic, do you have the slightest clue or insight into women s thoughts or emotions Author Nope.Publisher Great Is your book riddled with women being ra [...]
Mary Dodd s crime was falling in love with a common man After being committed to an insane asylume was given the opportunity to escape by enlisting in the BFI program Brides for Indians a secret government program This program NEVER REALLY HAPPENED IN OUR HISTORY.e idea was tossed around and tossed out FOR DAMN GOOD REASONS So the MAJORITY of this book is FICTION I read 98 pages then skipped around reading then jumped ahead and read the last 50 pages which included the Epilogue, and an interview [...]
This is somewhat erroneously in my read shelf I did not finish reading it, so keep that in mind as far as this review goes I applaud the author s project historical fiction disguised as history proper I tend to love things like that , it is a well researched story told via the faux journals of a 19th century white woman who went to live among the Cheyenne My problem with this book is essentially that I did not ever buy the voice in which it is told this problem has two tiers First, it is suppose [...]
I like historical fiction I appreciate writers who take the time to research their stories well I like to think that I m catching up on some of the history I missed as the same time as enjoying a good read I like journals and memoirs And I jump at the chance to see history from the perspective of those who are usually written out of the history books So I was quite enthusiastic when I heard about this novel which is written in the form of the journal of a nineteenth century Yankee woman living a [...]
First let me say, it seems among GR readers that this book stinks And I get the criticism, I do However, I have to say that I found this an enjoyable read Yes, the voice of Ms Dodd, our heroine, protagonist, would be feminist well sort of pseudo feminist does sound 20th Century and less like a believable 19th Century even modern woman but honestly, it kind of made the book readable to me I have no interest in hearing a modern writer trying to trifle through old English in a book written in a j [...]
Once upon a time, there was an Cheyenne chief called Little Wolf and a drunken US President named Ulysses S Grant After Grant made a horrible fool of himself by being a white guy, Little Wolf was like, Look, we re matrilineal, so why not just let us have some white ladies to marry and procreate with We don t even need cool white ladies You can give us the nice ugly ones And the pretty crazy ones But not the crazy ugly ones because that seems like a bit much And thus the Brides for Indians projec [...]
At a peace conference at Fort Laramie in 1854, a prominent northern Cheyenne Chief requested of the US army the gift of one thousand white women as brides for his young warriors.Although this was an actual historical event, the story of May Dodd and her journals is entirely a work of fiction by the author.The Cheyenne s request was not well received by the white authorities, and the peace conference collapsed and the Cheyenne s were actually sent home.The white women did not go But in this novel [...]
This book was really disappointing The premise begins with a re telling of the proposed Brides for Indians pact that went on in 1854, when a whole host of Cheyenne Native Americans came into DC and asked for 1000 white women to take back to the prairie Their idea was that by impregnating the women, they d put the Native American seed into Caucasian culture and thus assimilate it.Ok, so that never happened But for Jim Fergus, he lets his imagination roll with the idea that it did Enter May Dodd, [...]
If this book was not assigned to me for my book club, I wouldn t have wasted my time to read it Not only is Fergus novel, overly sentimental, historically inaccurate, misogynistic, it is racist towards Native Americans AND it s all told in my least favorite method of narration the journal entry Chapters will often begin with, So much has happened since my last entry, I don t know where to begin This is an easy tool to push time forward, and overdone in poorly written novels Fergus novel was chos [...]
I read this for book club and felt distracted by the quality of writing, and therefore unable to even entertain the implausible historical premise Maybe that is my own shortcoming I just have a difficult time buying into a journal which contains pages of dialogue and real time events, and a voice that constantly contradicts itself and clearly belongs in a different century but I tried to ignore this As I read on, it became clear that while the author did his history homework, and has an obvious [...]
Quite a good read From Booklist, by Grace Fill An American western with a most unusual twist, this is an imaginative fictional account of the participation of May Dodd and others in the controversial Brides for Indians program, a clandestine U.S government sponsored program intended to instruct savages in the ways of civilization and to assimilate the Indians into white culture through the offspring of these unions May s personal journals, loaded with humor and intelligent reflection, describe t [...]
I have to agree with several of the previous reviewers GREAT premise exchange of 1,000 white women for peace an offer actually made, but declined by Grant and interesting insight into Native American culture However, I had some of the same gripes as previous reviewers For one, I thought the writing was very mediocre, it was abound with cliches If the narrator referred to one person being rough around the edges I was going to scream Not to mention he made my skin crawl And, as others said, May D [...]
If I were a member of the Cheyenne tribe featured in this book, my Indian name would be Couldn t Finish The Book If Jim Fergus were a member of the tribe, his Indian name would be Has Never Spoken To A Woman For Any Amount Of Time because really Oh, and the Indian name of this book would be Fail Order Brides.I will start off by saying that I ve never been a fan of historical fiction or books written as journals, but the premise of this book piqued my interest I wasn t even slightly put off by th [...]
3.5 stars an interesting look at what could have happened if history had gone a little differently Hard to get fully into at first, but still fascinating When it did pull me in, I was hooked dragged a bit near the end but was never boring part of that may have been me having an idea or two of what was happening and dreading it too The way May s journal entries are written, it feels like you have gone back in time and catching a glimpse of a forgotten past It feels like I could have been reading [...]
It s a bodice ripper It took me to page 80 to figure that out and then I laughed aloud Tana recommended it to me, and I usually value her recommendations, but I forgot that this is a genre she finds fun I was just so disappointed This book would appeal to those who like the Outlander series There is the heroine who has no faults or failings but who is consistently misunderstood There are evil characters lurking on the edges, but she feels safe in the arms of a series of fantastic heroes who are [...]
So I liked the entire book, especially the main character However, I was a bit bummed by the end And I even had a little trouble figuring out who the characters were in the final pages lineage But what a well written book I had never read a book about Indians, and while I am sure it only scratched the surface of their customs and way of life, it did present a lot of information about them In the end though, it was ironic that the main character was unable to identify with either the Indians due [...]
Loved the book is in journal form and tells of how the government asked the American Indians to trade one thousand white women for horseseir main reason was to civilize the Indians and make them aware of and become familiar with the white people s way of life.Very interesting bookpic not as bad as it sounds.
1.5 stars.This is another one of those disappointing books where the idea is really neat and the execution is incredibly bad The main issue is how flawed the writing of the characters is For one thing, he seems to confuse people having accents for people having personalities There are Irish accents, southern accents, German accents And he WRITES OUT the accents, which is supremely annoying He also sporadically writes things in French and then doesn t translate them On top of that, there s every [...]
If you read the top reviews, however good the total rating is, you ll see the book has kinda bad reputation, and lemme tell you it earned it All of it What a fuckin sham this book is.I think this is the book I hated the most this year Actually, than that, it angered me until I couldn t take it any and basically threw it across the room I want to burn the piece of garbage.The plot promised me strong and independent women, I got a bunch of clich s the shehulk swiss with fucking bowling balls for [...]
Why did I read this book Two words book club.Yes, after a lifetime of avoiding book clubs, perhaps its fitting that in my latest job one of my tasks is to lead a book club And guess what the first title is On the plus side, it was a quick read An amalgamation of cliches and trite characters Noble Native Americans, uptight white people, a former slave who not only sings and dances good but is also the fastest runner in the tribe , this is a basic tale of 1875, as the last Native Americans were be [...]
The friend who loaned me this book raved about it, and I really trust her opinion However, I just couldn t love this book It is an interesting topic it s based on a true bit of history, when the Native Americans and the U.S were trying to integrate, and the Native Americans requested 1000 of American white women to help the process and have their children Of course, Grant turned it down, but this book is a fictional account of what might have been It was an extremely interesting idea, and I espe [...]
I fear I m going to be overly harsh on this book First, this book took me 3 months to read, which is nearly unheard of, especially for 300 pages I kept wanting to just stop reading, but I wanted to finish it so I could say I finished it.The basic story of the book I think is intriguing and could be the basis for a really good book if done correctly I just think the author missed terribly here The book is bogged down by dialogue, and crappy dialogue at that He felt it necessary to write conversat [...]
A fascinating look at life among the Cheyenne Indians in 1874 from the perspective of a white woman who is part of a US govt program to assimilate the natives The landscape is perfectly described and family and communal life is portrayed in great detail in a supposed journal with accompanying letters and bibliography It appears to be well researched, but my problem with this kind of historical fiction is always wondering just how much IS true were the Indians really THAT brutal The too good to b [...]
One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd is a very interesting and original book In 1854 a Cheyenne chief proposed a plan to exchange 1000 horses for 1000 white brides for his warriors The plan was rejected, but Fergus basis his fictional novel on a similar situation set in 1875 In the novel, the Cheyenne are promised 1000 white brides, and May Dodd, resident of an insane asylum, is one of the women selected The character May Dodd was a strong woman and her story was compelling.1875 fin [...]
A well written and lively alter verse if you will Historical Fiction re telling of the proposed Brides for Indians pact of September 1874, when the heads of the Cheyenne tribes, including Chief Little Wolf the Sweet Medicine Chief and others, journeyed to Washington D.C with a proposal for President Ulysses S Grant They presented their plan to give the government one thousand horses in exchange for one thousand white women Hoping to end the fighting between the white man and Indians on the Ameri [...]
3.5 stars.In 1874 The Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf approached President Ulysses Grant with the proposal to trade 1000 white women for 1000 horses, an offer refused by the government The premise in Jim Fergus book is that the government decided to secretly send these women.Initially I didn t like May, I found her behaviour very unlikely for the time, but as I read further I realized that to accept the offer and live the life she did, she would have to be someone that didn t tow the line This was a [...]
5 RatingIf I didn t know before hand that this book was a work of fiction, it would have been easy to think otherwise The Intro 1996 by J Will Dodd, editor in chief of Chicago s city magazine and great grandson of the h May Dodd, writes very convincingly Thru the years rumors had circulated within the family about the crazy woman , born 1850, hospitalized at 23 for a nervous disorder, then died in the asylum in 1876 Ancestral insanity, an embarrassment, was a well kept hidden little secret.While [...]
An actual event is the premise for this story set in the late 1800s But what actually happened doesn t at all resemble what the author puts forth.As the white man encroached on the land of the native people, treaty after treaty was made and broken A delegation led by Cheyenne leader, Little Wolf met with then President Grant to try to once again come to an understanding that would allow the native people to maintain their land and lifestyle Basically, in exchange for residing on a specified piec [...]
I honestly enjoyed this interesting take on history and think the main point of the book was missed by many of the reviewers Yes the main character, May Dodd, is a strong woman ahead of her times in certain cultural areas But the book is a wonderful account of and tribute to the Cheyenne people before they were forced to live on a reservation It is a captivating read of their daily life, connection to their surroundings, and in many case, higher moral standards than their white civilized compatr [...]