One Thousand White Women:The Journals of Mary Dodd/Jim Fergus/304 pgs.

Jim Fergus provides an alternative history of a proposal by a Cheyenne chief, in 1854, requesting 1,000 white women as brides for his warriors. The Cheyennes felt this would be a way to assimilate into the white man's world. This proposal never met fruition, but Fergus provides the reader with a fascinating account of what could have happened had it gone through. A highly interesting story, and a sad commentary on the brutal treatment of Native Americans.