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The Vengeance of Mothers
Jim Fergus
The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill
One Thousand White Women #2
St. Martin's Griffin
September 2018
On Sale: September 4, 2018
368 pages ISBN: 1250093430 EAN: 9781250093431 Kindle: B06W5GQN9F Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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Historical
The stunning sequel to the awarding-winning novel One
Thousand White Women. 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. Empty of human
feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact
are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we
curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and
Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not
underestimate the power of a mother’s vengeance... 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. Mostly fallen women, the
brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom.
But many fell in love with the Cheyennes spouses and had
children with them...and became Cheyenne themselves. The Vengeance of Mothers explores what happens to the
bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when
society sees them as "unspeakable." Jim Fergus brings to
light a time and place and fills it with unforgettable
characters who live and breathe with a passion we can relate
to even today.
One Thousand White Women
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