One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd [Paperback]

Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, thisis the story of May Dodda remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.

One Thousand White Womenbegins with May Dodds journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from civilized society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventuresMays brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to the great chief Little Wolf; and her conflict of being caught between loving two men and living two completely different lives.

Fergus portrays the perceptions and emotions of women&with tremendous insight and sensitivity.Booklist

A superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph. Winston Groom,author of Forrest Gump

Jim Fergusis field editor and monthly columnist forsports Afieldmagazine and also writes a monthly feature on the AllOutdoors.com Web site. His work has appeared in numerous national magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of the nonfiction bookA Hunter's Road. He lives in northern Colorado.

A most impressive novel that melds the physical world to the spiritual.One Thousand White Womenis engaging, entertaining, well-written, and well-told. It will be widely read for a long time, as will the rest of Jim Fergus's work. Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be

Jim Fergus knows his country in a way that's evocative Dee Brown and all the other great writers of the American West and its native peoples. ButOne Thousand White Womenis more than a chronicle of the Old Westlc+