Why Dinah loves this book
This was a world/time/culture that I didn't know much about--the book is based on an event that was kept secret for many years. The character development was wonderful--the plot, sadly, believable.
4 authors picked One Thousand White Women as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd―a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.
One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s 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…