The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill : [a novel] /
Fergus, Jim,
The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill : [a novel] / Jim Fergus. - Large print edition. - 615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm - - Thorndike Press large print core . - Thorndike Press large print core series. .
Subtitle from cover. Unabridged.
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 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 U.S. 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.
9781432843601 1432843605
2017034454
Women, White--Fiction.
Cheyenne Indians--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Government relations--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Whites--Relations with Indians--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Interracial marriage--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Retribution--Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Western fiction.
Large type books.
The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill : [a novel] / Jim Fergus. - Large print edition. - 615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm - - Thorndike Press large print core . - Thorndike Press large print core series. .
Subtitle from cover. Unabridged.
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 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 U.S. 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.
9781432843601 1432843605
2017034454
Women, White--Fiction.
Cheyenne Indians--Fiction.
Indians of North America--Government relations--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Whites--Relations with Indians--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Interracial marriage--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Retribution--Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Western fiction.
Large type books.