The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill : [a novel]
by Fergus, Jim (Author)
Summary
"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.... Full description
Summary: |
"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 Cheyenne spouses and had children with them . . . and became Cheyenne themselves." -- |
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Item Description: |
Subtitle from cover. |
Physical Description: |
337 pages ; 24 cm |
ISBN: |
9781250093424 1250093422 |
Author Notes: |
Jim Fergus is an author born in 1950 in the U.S. He earned a degree in English from Colorado College. He works as a tennis teacher and freelance writer. He won the 1999 Fiction of the Year Award from the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association for his first novel, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd. His other titles include: The Sporting Road: Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer- With Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer, The Wild Girl, and The Vengeance of Mothers. (Bowker Author Biography) |