Lynda C. (Readnmachine) reviewed on 1/3/2013 + 1474 more book reviews

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Fergus has twisted an historical oddity here to create a most unusual tale of white women sent to the Cheyenne nation as brides. The proposal was actually made by a Cheyenne chieftain in 1845 and promptly dismissed by the government. Fergus moves it forward in time to 1875 and creates a "what-if" fiction in which a small group of women do undertake the task. Generally well-written, but he loses points for his annoying and inaccurate use of dialect by some of the women. Fergus apparently never heard an authentic Irish brogue or a true Southern drawl in his life, and someone's decision to set this linguistic massacre in italics only makes it worse.

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