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Book Review of One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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May Dodd is an energetic and exciting young woman in very interesting circumstances. As a was to escape committment to a mental institution, she embarks on the greatest adventure of her life. This book provides interesting perspective on the settlement of the Western United States and the implications of "civilization". Set in the 1870's with a Cheyenne tribe the unexpected thrills and horrors of life are exposed to white women placed in this great experiment.