August 2, 2017
Today's Featured Title and Contest
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, August 3rd at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of the 20th Anniversary Edition of ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest:
ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN:
The Journals of May Dodd (20th Anniversary Edition)
by Jim Fergus
ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end, May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.
THE VENGEANCE OF MOTHERS: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill, the sequel to ONE THOUSAND WHITE WOMEN, releases on September 12th.
- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here for the discussion guide.
- Click here to visit Jim Fergus' website.
Click here to enter the contest
by 11:59am ET on Thursday, August 3rd.
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