By Jim Fergussen
This book was unusual. I will admit that I checked it out from the library based solely on the title - kind of a weird one. The book is based on a secret (and fictional obviously) government program to appease and integrate the American Indians by sending them 1,000 white women to be brides. The tribe in question is a matrelinial society so their cheif thought that the best way to integragte them into the white American world would be to have their men marry and impregnante white women so their children would automatically be a part of their mother's world. Interesting concept I think, and based in part on real events - although no women were sent in real life!
Anyway, in this story, a group of women were collected (volunteers, prisoners and inmates at a mental institution - where the FMC May Dodd was found) and sent west to marry. The characters were really vivid, especially the women and their trials and misadventures were very interesting.
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