Robin B. (Boonie) reviewed on 6/22/2006 + 126 more book reviews

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This book is so well written it hard to believe that it's not a true story. It's based on a Cheyenne Indian Chief's request to President Ulysses S. Grant for 1,000 white women be given as brides to Cheyenne warriors, to teach them and their children how to live with the 'Whites' when the buffalo are gone.

The story is narrated through the journals of May Dodd. May was institutionalized in a lunatic asylum by her rich family because she left home to live out of wedlock and had two children with a man they considered to be beneath her station. She uses the 'Brides for Indians' program as a way to escape the asylum.

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