Today my friend Sophia Rose is reviewing Strongheart by Jim Fergus One Thousand White Women #3. Those of you who have read any books in this series know how poignant they are so like many of you I can't wait to hear what Sophia Rose thought of the finale.
Enjoy!
Strongheart by Jim Fergus
#3 One Thousand White Women
Historical Fiction
Publisher: St.
Martin’s Press
Published: 4.6.21
ASIN: B08BYCSZPR
Page: 377
Rating: 4.5
Format: eARC
Source: Net Galley
Sellers: Amazon/ Barnes & Noble/ Kobo
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GoodReads Blurb:
The final installment to the One Thousand White Women
trilogy is a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to
survive.
In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange
one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with
his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by
force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate the
way of life of the Cheyenne, at the time when the great massacres of the tribes
begin. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some female survivors decide to
take up arms against the United States, which has stolen from the Native
Americans their lands, their way of life, their culture and their history. This
ghost tribe of rebellious women will soon go underground to wage an implacable
battle, which will continue from generation to generation. In this final volume
of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus mixes with rare mastery the
struggle of women and Native Americans in the face of oppression, from the end
of the 19th century until today. With a vivid sense of the 19th century American
West, Fergus paints portraits of women as strong as they are unforgettable.
