For one, I thought the writing was very mediocre, it was abound with cliches. "The bench had been relocated behind the museum in 2011 as part of a broader effort to assemble various monuments throughout the park in that area, the city said.The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History located in the park is also home to a stained-glass window that depicts Dodd. They've handled that situation better than anyone I've ever seen. I kept wanting to just stop reading, but I wanted to finish it so I could say I finished it.I fear I'm going to be overly harsh on this book. If you really want to read a good book about life with the American Indians try The Son by Philip Meyer, it's in another league. It just didn't ring true to me.

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King can't wait to get going by throwing to whoever he can find. I just showed him offensively what we can do. May Erva Pirie (born Dodd) was born on month day 1890, at birth place, Virginia, to Joseph Humphrey Dodd and Lucy S. T. Dodd (born Dowell). The dialogues didn't ring true but it was a piece of history I didn't know about. AND it's all told in my least favorite method of narration: the journal entry. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. One Thousand White Women The Journals of May Dodd (Book) : Fergus, Jim : An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Apr 28, 2014 - Do you love traveling back in time when you read? Of course, Grant turned it down, but this book is a fictional account of what might have been. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. I like to think that I'm catching up on some of the history I missed as the same time as enjoying a good read. Actually, GUlysses S. Grant was a president, but he wasn't a drunk like the book portrays him. Eric King had been his son's youth coach and best friend before congestive heart failure took him unexpectedly. I kept wanting to just stop reading, but I wanted to finish it so I could say I finished it.The friend who loaned me this book raved about it, and I really trust her opinion. The landscape is perfectly described and family and communal life is portrayed in great detail in a supposed journal with accompanying letters and bibliography. There are no plans to remove it, Jackson said.On June 19, Jackson said there were no other Confederate monuments in the city's purview for which removal was being considered.

Loading... Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Neither these AP materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and noncommercial use. I've been a three-year starter for the team. Apa, Britt Robertson, Nathan Parsons, Gary Sinise. We don't even need cool white ladies. That any white woman would expect to be accepted back into their former lives after living with Native Americans is ludicrous. All these photos have a story to tell and come from a reliable source. An actual event is the premise for this story set in the late 1800s. 3.5 stars... an interesting look at "what could have happened" if history had gone a little differently . This request was not well received and declined. In the novel, the Cheyenne are promised 1000 white brides, and May Dodd, resident of an insane asylum, is one of the women selected. Gruenewald said Dodd's story is a sad one about a boy who got caught up in the events of the war, and that perhaps the marker could be placed at Dodd… The motley crew of volunteers described in Dodd’s journals includes women released from insane asylums and prisons in exchange for their service as well as women abandoned by their families and generally down on their … Places like Miami with the history they have here. "A request from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for the number of complaints or any written communication the city had received about the markers related to Dodd or the statue of the soldier had not been fulfilled as of Thursday evening.Removal of the Capitol Guards monument came at a time when numerous Confederate statues around the country are being removed from public property amid a national conversation about racism after the death of George Floyd.Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 while being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. He has traveled extensively and lived over the years in Colorado, Florida, the French West Indies, Idaho, France, and Arizona. First, this book took me 3 months to read, which is nearly unheard of, especially for ~300 pages. I read this only because it was my book group’s selection. I was just so disappointed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

Monuments are one way to provide a justification for the present political system, Kirk said, and in the early 1900s they were a way to mandate segregation, since Black people did not have a political voice. Can’t wait to start the sequel. And, aI have to agree with several of the previous reviewers... GREAT premise (exchange of 1,000 white women for peace - an offer actually made, but declined by Grant) and interesting insight into Native American culture.