One Thousand White Women

From Julie

One Thousand White Women

by Jim Fergus

Fiction, but written as a woman's diary who volunteered to live with the Cherokee Indians for two years. She was to marry an Indian and have a baby.

The Chief of the tribe meets with the President of the United States to say that they will trade 1,000 horses to the U.S. government in return for 1,000 white women to marry and give birth to Cherokee babies. That is true, in real like the President does not agree, but in this book, the President agrees. The book is the diary of one of those women.

I heard about this book about 10 years ago, thought it was fascinating, but my library never had it! Then suddenly, there it was and I scooped it up. The beginning was GREAT. Then the author got too carried away with himself and the story, it dragged and was too slow for me. I skipped to the more interesting parts and then the end. I liked it, just wish it was 150 pages shorter. It is a hefty book.

Read it if you have a lot of time.