One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

I just finished listening to this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. This book is about a group of pioneer women who travel out west in 1875 to intermarry with Cheyenne Indians as part of an American government “Brides for Indians” program. The goal of this program is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man’s world. The book is written as a series of journals written by one of the participants, May Dodd. One thing that really impressed me about this is book is that you forget sometimes that the author is really a man and the fact that it is a work of fiction. The whole time you really feel like these were true historical events that took place. I also found myself really feeling empathetic towards the characters. As I mentioned before, I actually listened to the book and I found the narrator really gives a great voice to all the characters and really enhances the experience of the book.