One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd.

FERGUS, Jim.

Item Number: 146193

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

First edition of this work 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. Octavo original boards. Boldly signed by Jim Fergus on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner.

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 follows is a series of breathtaking adventures―May’s 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 loving two men and living two completely different lives. “A superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph" (Winston Groom).