This month’s selected book by members of the Library’s book club is “One Thousand White Women”, a novel written by author Jim Fergus. “One Thousand White Women” begins with May Dodd’s journey west into the unknown. Yet the unknown is a far better fate than the life she left behind. 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 of freedom is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from the “civilized” world become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is the story of May’s breathtaking adventures: her 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 two worlds loving two men, living two lives. So vividly has Jim Fergus depicted the American West that May Dodd’s journals are like a capsule in time (from the publisher). This book is based on an actual historical event in 1875, but told through fictional diaries. Stop by the Library and check out a copy of this book!
