Showing posts with label One Thousand White Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label One Thousand White Women. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Lots of Italics in This Post to Represent Disbelief


This weekend I went to the beach with family and friends.  A tent had to be pitched on the beach.  That’s right, we are those people now, apparently.    And even though one of our friends put together a tent, this is of course what happened:



So very little reading was done.  Luckily I have a bunch of free time on weeknights from 9:45-10:15pm and during that time I read the awesome One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus. 

I loved this book.  I have never heard about the group of white women that were sent off as brides to Native Americans to “civilize the savages.”  This novel was based on a true historical event, but it was a fictitious story.  It read like the real thing though.  Wow, was it good.  If you like reading, being interested in things, happiness, and especially reading, you will like this book. 

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