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The Vengeance of Mothers (One Thousand White Women, Bk 2)
The Vengeance of Mothers - One Thousand White Women, Bk 2
Author: Jim Fergus
9 March 1876 — My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. — Empty ...  more »

So begins the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for One Thousand White Women to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses.

These "brides" were mostly fallen women; women in prison, prostitutes, the occasional adventurer, or those incarcerated in asylums. No one expected this program to work. The brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many of them fell in love with the Cheyennes spouses and had children with them... and became Cheyenne themselves.
ISBN-13: 9781250170330
ISBN-10: 1250170338
Publication Date: 11/1/2017
Pages: 337
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Publisher: St Martin's Press
Book Type: Paperback
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