I'm finding, as I get older, that historical fiction is really appealing to me. This book, again, recommended to me, was a real winner. It is so well-written that, should you miss the page up front that says it's a work of fiction, you might, if unaware with American history, believe it to be true, as the person who referred it to me did. I love stories that take true historical facts and mix in their own spin on a situation to make something that I could believe really happened. I hate history, in general. It was my worst subject in school, and yet I love this style of writing. I found it also to be true with a book called "I, Mona Lisa", but I'll save that for another review.

This one bases itself upon a true historical event: In 1854 Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf went to Virginia and met with oh, I'm going from memory here, was it Grant? At any rate, he asked for 1,000 white women as brides for his warriors in exchange for 1,000 horses. Although he was turned down, the book is written as if he was not, and we meet May Dodd, who is in an insane asylum, basically for having sex with a common factory worker and having 2 children out of wedlock. She is one of the 1,000 white women who, typical to "white man" fashion, were comprised of the sick, dying, imprisoned and mentally insane or deficient. However, she is an intelligent, articulate woman who, of course, gets paired up with the tribal chief. I unfortunately do not know enough about actual American history to know if this is historically accurate, but it is so enthralling that I really didn't much care. Well worth the read, in my opinion, if books of this nature appeal to you.

Here is a link to it on Amazon, if you want to read more about it or pick up a copy:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Thousand-White-Women-Journals/dp/0312199430/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9625345-1161563?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194392686&sr=1-1